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Coyote (Paperback)

by Allen M. Steele (Author)
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  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (3 Feb 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841493678
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841493671
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.8 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 208,136 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'An homage to wonder, hope and determinism' Stephen Baxter 'Allen Steele is always good, and Coyote is one of his very best' Kevin J. Anderson 'The discovery of a new world is one of SF's most potent themes, and Steele handles it well' Publishers Weekly 'Heinlein would approve' Locus

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Coyote is an astonishing discovery, a habitable moon in a solar system 40-odd light years from Earth. A despotic post-US government decides to colonise this precious find and constructs the starship Alabama. The ship is about to launch when it is hijacked by its own crew. Instead of the intended party loyalists it is populated with malcontents and social dissidents who must learn to work together in the struggle to reach and then conquer their prize: Coyote. Vast in scope, passionate in its conviction, and set against a backdrop of completely plausible events, Coyote tells the story of Earth's first extra-solar colonists, and the mysterious planet that becomes their home.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Sci-fi for children, 8 Oct 2007
The first question that Amazon asked when typing this review was whether I am over 13.

I find it an extremely apt question.

I can give this book two scores, based on the age of readers. Either a 4 for a 'rousing', tolerably well-written (for a children's book) and slightly thought-provoking children's book. Or I can give it one stars for a book that has a mature sci-fi reader shaking his head at every single turn of page. Perhaps not shaking, perhaps banging his head against a shelf of well-written sci-fi books.

I'm sure children and teenagers will be engaged by this book and will enjoy it immensely.

That said, they'd prefer Heinlein.

I find it astonishing that this book was written only a couple of years ago.

This is not a book that was written, in spirit, in the 21st century. Heinlein was writing better books, in the exact wagons-to-the-stars vein half a century ago. The 'inspiration' is obvious.

Adults will be driven to frustration by one-dimensional characters, awful science, barely concealed political frustration, unoriginal plots, pandering to children and the absolute stupidity of plot events and character behaviour.

A couple of examples of stupidity includes a laughable plot to steal a spaceship, a spaceship arriving to colonize a planet with no idea what to expect (so if the planet was hostile, the colonists would presumably have been doomed to eating each other in orbit), that spaceship being full of 'scientists' (a very 50s expectation) because agricultural experts were not foreseen, a planet with edible organisms that did not evolve from shared DNA (unexplainable), Marxist superhumans arriving to take over a planet (they have super-fast propulsion systems and cyborgs but forgot to take their food with them) and perhaps the most insulting part of all, a plot development in which a treacherous colonist reveals the colony location to the super-communists by sending them its location by radio. I can see my car parked on my street via Google Earth and I expect those that use zero-point energy could probably read the contents of this computer from orbit and they do not need traitors to find a primitive settlement on a planet.

Help, my brain is imploding from this childish sci-fi!

This is not hard sci-fi in any way. The science is atrocious

This is not space opera, there is nothing epic about its descriptions of children canoeing around a sea on an alien world.

This is a story of the American West being conquered by wagons, except it occurs in space.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unputdownable. It's a word., 10 Oct 2006
I really cannot understand why this book (and the trilogy as a whole for that matter) has been taking such a beating in the reviews. I thought it was outstanding.

The fact that this book is based on a number of short stories is obvious at some points, if only because a lot of facts are over stated unnecessarily, presumably to 'set the scene' and enable readers to read these short stories individually without needing to read earlier ones. I feel a little better editing could have rectified this, but it's such a small flaw in an otherwise incredible book that it's barely worth mentioning.
Maybe it's also a testament to Steele's writing ability that these short stories work on their own and as part of a generation spanning trilogy?

I feel that far too much SF these days is ridiculous and too unbelievable (I know, it is fiction after all) but this book and series gives you something that you can actually imagine happening. It doesn't bombard you with gobbledegook science, it just tells an exciting, imaginative and often emotional story.
The phrase 'I could not put this book down' is an overused one, but I literally couldn't, and had finished the 3 books in the series in about 10 days.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a great book, 20 May 2007
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I really like Science Fiction of this sort; with a lot of believable events and characters, colonising space and this was a great read. The story is set a little way in to the future as America constructs its first deep space manned colonisation ship for a moon in a distant galaxy that all reports state can support human life. The moon is 46 light years away so the crew and colonists have to go in to hibernation sleep for the voyage and then of course their are the struggle to build a colony on a distant alien world with no support from Earth. There are some brilliant touching moments and a few twists and interesting ideas, the main one being that most of the crew and colonists decided to hijack the ship straight away and escape in to space since the America they are leaving behind has become a fascist like corrupt dictatorship which has forgotten its libertarian roots.

If you liked Kim Stanley Robinsons great Mars Trilogy then you will love this too. This is a great trilogy too and after readind this I went out and bought the other two in the trilogy. a great story.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Wild West Pilgrims in Space
A readable book, but not a good book. I would classify it a waste of time, as there are simply so many better books around. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Luka Rejec

2.0 out of 5 stars So much potential. . . wasted
I thought the first half of Coyote was close to brimming with brilliance. But, it just gets stupider and stupider after the colonists land on Coyote. Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2006 by Keith G. Dixon

3.0 out of 5 stars Who took the S out of SF?
I was amazed at how many different ways Steele managed to get his science wrong in this one. From having visibly impressive relativistic effects at 0. Read more
Published on 16 April 2006 by J. Childs

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
I was a big fan of Allan Steele’s early novels like Clarke County, Space and Orbital Decay. However, I hadn’t read any of his books in quite some time when I saw... Read more
Published on 25 Nov 2005 by M. Sealby

3.0 out of 5 stars A pale shadow of better things
I read 'Coyote' and I'm halfway through 'Coyote Rising' now, but felt strongly enough that I thought I'd better put some sort of review together... Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2005 by Moom

5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable
I'd been reading a lot of good reviews about this book, but after being bitten once before by being led by rubbish reviews and buying a book that was a chore to read I was a... Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2005 by Adam Sharples

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent start, tailed off in the middle, intriuging end
I bought this book thinking that it was a complete new story but its not (or at least this book is not) - it brings together a number of short stories around the colonisation of a... Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2005 by A. J. Sudworth

4.0 out of 5 stars Liberty! An book with more depth than expected.
We follow the birth of a colony on a distant planet and it's struggle to survive. It's written more as a collection of diaries and notes of the people in the colony. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2005 by tomaskaplan

4.0 out of 5 stars Hard sf with character
I first came across Allen Steele a few years ago with his early novels,Orbital Decay and Clarke County Space,both of which I enjoyed enormously. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2004 by M P Garde

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy
I am 48 and have been reading SF since I was 13 and this is easily the worst SF book I have ever read. Read more
Published on 13 Oct 2003 by williamgrogan

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