- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Roc (Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0451459490
- ISBN-13: 978-0451459497
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.6 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,903,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dusksite.com, September 5, 2003
An ambitious, bleak, both entertaining and thought-provoking science fiction novel for the 21st century...it comes highly recommended.
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Nominated for the Best SF Novel of 2003 for the Aurealis Awards
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
One seriously confused psychic investigator,
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This review is from: Wyrmhole (Paperback)
Jack Stein is a Psychic Investigator addicted to stim patches. He lives in a place called "the Locality", a city of sorts that moves along the ground and in the process renews and discards itself. As he is an investigator, "Wyrmhole" is about a mystery. Outreach Industries hires him to investigate the disappearance of the miners on the rim planet Dairil III. During his investigations Jack begins to suspect Outreach Industries of not wanting him to come up with an answer. During the search for answers Jack is hired by other clients. One of them wants him to find out what a handheld unit contains and the other client wants him to find out who found the handheld unit. All of the cases seem to be connected, but Jack cannot figure out just how. This is Jay Caselberg's first novel. It is certainly up to par with authors who have written several books and Jay certainly managed to catch and hold my attention throughout the book. There were some rough spots, but these were well within the acceptable limits. I have seen more seasoned writes who have had rougher ones. An enjoyable read.
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3.2 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Way more mystery than science fiction,
By Christopher Hivner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wyrmhole (Paperback)
Jack Stein is a psychic investigator. He receives clues in dreams and visions, then puts them together to solve cases. He has been hired by Outreach Industries to investigate the disappearance of one of their mining crews. Jack lives in an enclosed city called the Locality which has three sections Old, Mid and New. Jack's circumstances have him living in Old, not somewhere you necessarily want to be. Being a psychic investigator doesn't pay well and doesn't garner much respect. Add to that the fact that Jack isn't very good at it.
The deeper Jack gets into his investigation of the missing miners, the more people lie to him and want to hurt him, until he's not sure what the truth is. An old "friend" who he had enlisted to help him gets killed and Jack finds himself taking care of Billie, a clever, smart, but old-before-her-years 12 year old girl who was living with the friend under unsavory circumstances. Wyrmhole is pretty well written and moves along at a decent pace but ultimately has problems. Jack is not good as an investigator. In fact, I'm not sure he figured any part of it out himself. Someone else was always helping him and pushing him in the right direction. There is also little reason given for you to care about Jack; he's a loser of his own making. When the whole mystery is finally revealed in the end, I was left feeling, 'That was it? That's what took 300 pages to get to?' This isn't a bad novel and it did keep my interest, but it needed work. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
at least its different,
By vegimatic "veg" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wyrmhole (Paperback)
I really like this book, plot was a bit lazy, but the writing style was good. Good character interaction, very good emoting of the central characters. The only thing was that even though he's suppose to be solving things on an unconscious, intuitive level, it does make it seem as if this PI doesn't really solve things so much as been given strategically placed plot movers to make the story progress. Still, this book is more about the journey rather than the end trip. Entertaining just to read and go with it. Like it much better than his 2nd novel in this series.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Starts Well, But Deteriorates Quickly,
By David A. Lessnau - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wyrmhole (Paperback)
Jay Caselberg's "Wyrmhole" starts out with a lot of promise: an interesting concept and setting coupled with good, clear writing. But, that promise quickly deteriorates. The further you get into the book, the more you're aware that the main character, a variant of an investigator, has no people skills, no organizational skills, no technical skills, and no INVESTIGATIVE skills. He basically moves through the book by thrashing around and luckily finding others to follow up on the hints he gets from his psychic skills. How we're supposed to believe that he could ever put food on the table as an investigator I don't know. Couple this with a lack of a logical progression through the plot and I can only charitably give it a Pretty Bad 2 stars out of 5.
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