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by Robert Reed (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit; paperback / softback edition (2 Dec 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841492566
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841492568
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.6 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Praise for MARROW: 'It's an exhilarating ride, in the hands of an author whose aspiration literally knows no bounds' THE NEW YORK TIMES 'MARROW is relentless, taking on vast reaches of space and time with a giant ship like none you've ever seen. A bold work by a visionary writer' DAVID BRIN

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The Great Ship is home to a multitude of alien races and a near-immortal crew. They have toured the Milky Way for millennia, the best and the brightest from a thousand worlds, but the true purpose of the Ship has remained hidden. Now, time is running out. The huge spacecraft is heading for the dark, immense, region of space known as the Ink Well, and the only entity in the universe more vast and mysterious than the Great Ship is lying in wait ...'THE WELL OF STARS is wonderful far-future SF of the best kind: imaginative, epic, mind-blowing, but anchored by a strong sense of character and a glorious cast of heroes and rogues. The Great Ship is surely one of the most audacious creations in recent SF.' ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

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3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre sequel to excellent original, 15 Jul 2005
This novel continues the story of the `ship' begun in the excellent "Marrow". Unfortunately one gets the impression that the author has rather run out of new ideas. It feels much like part of an episodic serial in which the cast battle villain-of-the-week, complete with tidy resolution (reminiscient of an up-market novelisation of the Space1999 TV-series). The cast is familiar (plus a few `guest stars') and the BIG SECRETS of the ship lurk in the background as constant plot elements without being developed at all - the state at the end of the novel is pretty much as it was at the beginning.

Hopefully the author will tie it all up spectacularly in the (inevitable) third novel rather than have it morph limply into an interminable saga.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars One expected better, 2 Mar 2007
By Rod Williams "hairybloke@aol.com" (London) - See all my reviews
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Reed is a stylist. Claiming to have no influences in the SF canon, the Nebraska-based author is very much and individual voice, although there are echoes of Simak in some of his early work.
Since `Marrow', sales of which elevated Reed's profile to the level of best-selling SF author (rather than modestly selling quality SF writer) his books have moved away from mid-America based (yet complex) slow moving tales to a form of post-cyberpunk space opera.
Here, in this sequel to `Marrow', Reed once more employs one of his favourite devices, the near-immortal superhuman, or rather, an entire population of them, travelling through space on a ship the size of Jupiter which has an entire world entombed in its core.
The Great Ship, as it is known, attracts the attention of the polyponds, separate parts of a gestalt Gaian entity which inhabits an entire nebula.
Reed's style here is deeply poetic, stylistically romantic and oddly appropriate for the society he has created. Near-immortal humans on the Great Ship see little change and neither does their society. The almost baroque style seems therefore entirely apt.
Reed is not an author prone to writing sequels, having only done it once before in his career to my knowledge, and one does have to ask how much the conception of `Well of Stars' was influenced by the success of `Marrow'.
Reed occasionally has a problem with ending his novels, and he seems to have left this open for a third voyage on the Great Ship. The ending provided here is somewhat unsatisfying and relies rather too much on a convenient plot twist.
Having said that, his work is generally superior to most other contemporary SF and this is a genuinely decent novel, but one feels that he could have done better, since this is not up to the quality of 'Marrow'.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great follow on from Marrow, 5 Jan 2005
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I really enjoyed Marrow and was not disappointed with this follow-on.
Robert writes a fascinating, but believable plot, that manages to keep one step ahead of you and at the same time expands on the existing characters.
I'm looking forward to the next book.
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