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Avery Cates is in better shape than ever with the top-class augments the army's fitted him with. Pity he's no more than a puppet then, because they've also got a remote that can fry his brain at any second. And now a corrupt colonel is selling his controls to the highest bidder. Avery has visions of escape and bloody revenge - until he realises just who's bought him. Because the highest bidder is Canny Orel himself, Avery's oldest enemy. And as the System slides into chaos, Canny wants Cates to do one last job. Avery just needs one chance to get back at the old gunner - but this time, it's Canny who's holding all the cards.
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Jeff Somers lives in Hoboken, NJ, with his lovely wife Danette and their plump, imperious cat Pierre. Jeff insists the cat would be delicious. Since 1995, he has published his own magazine, The Inner Swine.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First off; don't start here. You might be able to keep up with the plot twists and characters, but you'll enjoy Terminal State much more if you've read the previous three books in the series, and in the right order. So go start with The Electric Church which is the first Avery Cates adventure.
Cates is a magnificent anti-hero. He's a gunner of the future; a hard-ass assassin who used to be a high-up hitman for hire when the world made sense. But since the start of this series the world has come apart at the seams, and Cates is always somewhere near the centre of the action. The world doesn't revolve around him but he is always in the wrong place at the wrong time, and usually comes out of it with battered faculties and fewer working limbs than he started with. Oh, and a couple of ghosts in his head...
In this earth of the future, a united society has ripped itself apart into civil war. The System Police and govt militia are struggling for the upper hand, helped and hindered by corporate interests, the psi guys, and old-school crims like Cates looking to make margin where ever they can.
I enjoyed Terminal State every bit as much as the earlier novels, although it is rather more running-and-fighting than high-concept sci-fi. As society disintegrates, so does Cates -- although he gets a pick-me-up at the start of the book with military grade augmentation. He's up against his oldest enemies however, plus android police, augmented soldiers and seriously powerful psi guys. So inevitably Cates takes a right kicking -- and comes up with a snappy one-liner for almost every occasion.
Much like the Sven series (Death's Head: Maximum Offence), there's an awful lot of shooting, killing, running and shouting in Terminal State. Neither series introduces many new concepts to the sci-fi world, but both make excellent use of existing ideas. (Both the Monks and the Digital Plague in the Avery Cates series remind me of similar concepts in Alastair Reynolds' future history -- Chasm City ).
Jeff Somers' writing is very easy to enjoy; very fluid and extremely well paced. He's created a range of engaging characters, and I'm now hanging on to find out what happens next. I hope that the next novel slows the pace a little and maybe increases the sci-fi aspect of the series; a bit less shouting and a bit more tech would be good.
Happy to recommend this -- just steer clear if you're easily offended, or prefer your sci-fi to be heavy/hard science.
8/10
Cates is a magnificent anti-hero. He's a gunner of the future; a hard-ass assassin who used to be a high-up hitman for hire when the world made sense. But since the start of this series the world has come apart at the seams, and Cates is always somewhere near the centre of the action. The world doesn't revolve around him but he is always in the wrong place at the wrong time, and usually comes out of it with battered faculties and fewer working limbs than he started with. Oh, and a couple of ghosts in his head...
In this earth of the future, a united society has ripped itself apart into civil war. The System Police and govt militia are struggling for the upper hand, helped and hindered by corporate interests, the psi guys, and old-school crims like Cates looking to make margin where ever they can.
I enjoyed Terminal State every bit as much as the earlier novels, although it is rather more running-and-fighting than high-concept sci-fi. As society disintegrates, so does Cates -- although he gets a pick-me-up at the start of the book with military grade augmentation. He's up against his oldest enemies however, plus android police, augmented soldiers and seriously powerful psi guys. So inevitably Cates takes a right kicking -- and comes up with a snappy one-liner for almost every occasion.
Much like the Sven series (Death's Head: Maximum Offence), there's an awful lot of shooting, killing, running and shouting in Terminal State. Neither series introduces many new concepts to the sci-fi world, but both make excellent use of existing ideas. (Both the Monks and the Digital Plague in the Avery Cates series remind me of similar concepts in Alastair Reynolds' future history -- Chasm City ).
Jeff Somers' writing is very easy to enjoy; very fluid and extremely well paced. He's created a range of engaging characters, and I'm now hanging on to find out what happens next. I hope that the next novel slows the pace a little and maybe increases the sci-fi aspect of the series; a bit less shouting and a bit more tech would be good.
Happy to recommend this -- just steer clear if you're easily offended, or prefer your sci-fi to be heavy/hard science.
8/10
Format:Paperback
Have been reading and enjoying this series since The Electric Church, and given how fast Somers pumps them out (reckon he's writing one a year) the quality hasn't slipped at all. If anything The Eternal Prison was the best so far, and the new developments in The Terminal State pretty much turn Cates into the ultimate badass.
The way the world of the books has been evolving as they've gone on is pretty impressive, the technology to augment humans has been advancing with each book while society crumbles more and more, and here Cates has to fight his way through a world that is essentially a warzone, battling telikenitics and super soldiers to find the inventor of the "God augment".
The plotting is as gripping as ever, with the usual genuinely surprising twists and turns, and it's always thrilling to see Avery barely scrape through each encounter by the skin of his teeth, wise-cracking and running his hard boiled internal monologue all the way. He's an action hero in the John Mclane mould but with all the moral fibre removed, and damn he's fun. Looking forward to picking up the next (final?) book, and interested to see what Somers does once this series is polished off.
The way the world of the books has been evolving as they've gone on is pretty impressive, the technology to augment humans has been advancing with each book while society crumbles more and more, and here Cates has to fight his way through a world that is essentially a warzone, battling telikenitics and super soldiers to find the inventor of the "God augment".
The plotting is as gripping as ever, with the usual genuinely surprising twists and turns, and it's always thrilling to see Avery barely scrape through each encounter by the skin of his teeth, wise-cracking and running his hard boiled internal monologue all the way. He's an action hero in the John Mclane mould but with all the moral fibre removed, and damn he's fun. Looking forward to picking up the next (final?) book, and interested to see what Somers does once this series is polished off.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having followed this series since the beginning, I'm always happy to pick up the next offering to see what Jeff brings to the table this time round. As usual you get a great story, some descent combat and backed it all up with a tale with more kinks than a fetish ball. It is well written, the characters do come alive although at times, it's the dialogue that let the author down to me. It's not that its bad but it's the fact that its written in the speakers dialect that make it difficult to translate for me. If you can let that sort of thing go, you're all sorted. If not he might not be the best author for you.
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