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Gordon A. Long
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This novel is a hodgepodge of styles and standard plotlines, trying to do too much with too little organization. The promo material sets it up pretty well: “Robot Asteroid follows three researchers racing against both a bizarre plague and a crumbling, ...more |
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If you haven’t watched a YouTube video where an AI predicts the next thousand years, you ought to, at least to prepare you for the first half of this novel. This is an adventure in scientific prediction, a treatise on every moral quandary predicted by ...more |
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| A word to the author. Fiction should never need an introduction. It is a sign that the author is intruding into the story, trying to affect our reaction to it because he doesn’t believe the story can stand on its own. In the case of this introduction ...more | |
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| Science Fiction isn’t a genre. It’s a setting. Of necessity, the story line must deal with a specific conflict of some type. So we have Sci-Fi Romance, Sci-Fi Military, Sci-Fi Action, Sci-Fi Detective and the list goes on. This novel should probably ...more | |
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This novel is Epic Fantasy in the most sweeping scope and style, but the book’s true appeal comes from the portrayal of the main character, Runa. Much of the conflict is internal. There are four ways to show personality: what the author tells us direc ...more |
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This book has all the elements of a good Sci-Fi story. It discusses the rise of Artificial Intelligence, which is topical these days. It has a detailed future setting with a realistic social order. It has a reasonable amount of hi-tech gadgetry. It h ...more |
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This novel is a Fantasy love story, a coming-of-age tale that becomes a character’s life story, concentrating on her youth and old age but reflecting multiple images of different generations of her family and friends. The fractured plotline could be c ...more |
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| First: why you might want to pick up this novel. It’s a good Sci-Fi, “rebels against the empire” tale. It has likeable, believable characters, and the creative dodge is having the rebel leaders mostly women, which brings a refreshing change to the to ...more | |
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