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Worldwired [Mass Market Paperback]

Elizabeth Bear


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  • Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Spectra; First THUS edition (27 Feb 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553587498
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553587494
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 2.8 x 17.4 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 448,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Give Canada’s Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and she’ll take a galaxy. That’s just the kind of person a world on the brink of destruction needs. The year is 2063, and Earth has been brutalized. An asteroid flung at Toronto by the PanChinese government has killed tens of millions and left the equivalent of a nuclear explosion in its wake. Humanity must find another option....

Perched above the devastation in the starship Montreal, Jenny is still in the thick of the fray. Plugged into the worldwire, connected to a brilliant AI, her mind can be everywhere and anywhere at once. But it’s focused on the mysterious alien beings right outside her ship. Are they there to help–or destroy? With Earth a breeding ground for treason and betrayal as governments struggle to assign blame, Jenny holds the fate of humankind in her artificially reconstructed hand....

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Amazon.com: 3.5 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Smashing conclusion to trilogy, 5 April 2006
By lb136 "lb136" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Worldwired (Mass Market Paperback)
"Worldwired" goes off, yet again in new direction. The three-part saga that in the author's "Hammered" seemed to be establishing itself as a cyberpunky "band of outlaws up against globalism and the corporations," but turned into an international thriller cum space opera in "Scardown," now adds a first-contact puzzle thread to the proceedings. (And a spectacular scene at the United Nations.)

This time out Jenny Casey takes more of a supporting role (although she gets plenty of action) as Richard, the super-intelligent artificial intelligence, moves front and center here. Certainly, he is the one who keeps all the plotlines together. But Jenny herself gets plenty of chapters in which to tell her part of the story in her wisecracky first-person-present style.

The author brings back the characters who survived the first two tales, and tosses in a few more (she puts a few of the returnees essentially on hold for a while, but do not fret, because she plugs them in when they're needed again), and once again uses her jagged multiple pov style. There's plenty of action here, but you have to resist the temptation to gobble down the pages, because if you do, you won't have the time to relish Ms. Bear's fine-honed prose style.

I hope that Ms. Bear will return to this "universe" she's created, although advertisements at the back of the book would seem to indicate that in her next novel she intends to go in another direction. No matter. I'll travel that road with her.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous wrap up of this three-book story arc, 29 Dec 2005
By C. Cameron - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Worldwired (Mass Market Paperback)
Watching Jenny grow and change from "Maker" in the first book, to a starship pilot in the second, to a complicated 50 year old combat veteran and reluctant hero in this book has been a fascinating journey. Bear's characters: heroes, villains, and bystanders, are all clearly lit and sympathetic (even when you know they are on the wrong side). If you liked "Patriot Games" or "Hunt for Red October" for Jack Ryan and the rest of the characters, I think you'll like this story, too. Gritty writing with an involved plot that keeps you guessing.

It also has an AI (artificial intelligence) patterned after Richard Feynman, famous physicist and drummer and a personal hero of mine. Marvellous.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Story and Writing, 11 Jan 2011
By hvanderwielen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Worldwired: Jenny Casey Series, Book 3 (Kindle Edition)
I never would have guessed where this trilogy would end. The plot was interesting and the characters compelling. I also really enjoyed the writing style of this author. A few of her more descriptive images really stuck with me.
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