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Recursion (Paperback)

by Tony Ballantyne (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Tor (16 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1405041390
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405041393
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 14.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 441,080 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'An exceptional first novel. A new British star has arrived to join the likes of Hamilton, Reynolds and Banks.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Herb returns to the remote planet he has been furtively trying to build a city on, to find it a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Eva has taken desperate steps to escape the tedium of her pointless life...only to end up in the super-intelligent clutches of a yellow mechanical digger. Constantine arrives at the remote part-idyllic, part-nightmare settlement of Stonebreak and - unsettlingly - begins to confront the truth of his own unreality. Meanwhile in the farthest reaches of outer space, the Enemy is plotting the final overthrow of the human race which created it.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading but not collecting, 15 Jul 2005
This review is from: Recursion (Paperback)
Ballantyre tells 3 loosely connected stories in 1 during this book via linked novelletes that are interspersed amongst each other - the sum definitely being greater than the parts would have been in isolation. It's an engrossing read the first time through as the `big ideas' are gradually leaked to the reader. However a second reading would be rather tedious since much of the enjoyablity is tied up with not knowing the outcome - and once this tension is defused, the actual action within the book is rather pedestrian.

Worth reading if you enjoy space/AI, but probably not the kind of book to join a limited permanent collection.

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24 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars New authors damn fine start, 23 Jun 2004
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A brand new author with an interesting tale to tell, perhaps the thing that should be mentioned about this novel from the outset is that the back reads like one hell of an idea for a computer strategy simulation and as such will put the reader into that frame of mind from the beginning. That said the reader does try to outguess the outcome and possible strategies as if they were playing a game but the author takes the readers into all directions leaving them never sure where the tale will end up. As a first novel this is a great start and as such will be interesting to see how Ballantyne develops over future presentations.
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13 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Give it a miss, 2 Sep 2005
This is his first book and apparently he is a teacher - to which I can only say don't give up the day job. To say that the characters are cardboard does a diservice to a mundane packaging material. Once you grit your teeth and get past half way the plot (AI's & Von Newman machines) picks up a bit and so becomes a bit more readable, but on the whole I'd say don't bother.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Uneven but interesting
I think I'm always prepared to be a little easy-going on a first book (or at least, a first one in print, we don't know how many Mr Ballantyne wrote before Recursion... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Unconvincing
This first novel is an ambitious exploration of the future development of AI through three viewpoint characters separated by decades (2051, 2119, and 2210) but sharing the... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Philosophically Interesting Plot
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great start, Tony
I'll give it a B or even a B+, which isn't at all bad for a first-timer. He's dealing with characters who are not sure (at times) whether they're real humans or software copies,... Read more
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