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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780441015948
ISBN: 0441015948
Label: Ace Hardcover
Manufacturer: Ace Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
Sales Rank: 8858
Studio: Ace Hardcover
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Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct—leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the contents of the package.
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Rating:  - Nothing sexy here, move along
This should have been a likable book; I certainly started it with high hopes. We've got spaceships, awesome technology, a fetching heroine who is in perpetual peril of assassination by mutant ninja dwarves, and I know Stross can write stories that keep me enthusiastically turning pages to find out what happens next. Yet, I had to force myself to finish this book; it wasn't completely horrible, but reading it was more of a chore than anything else.
What went wrong? Well, for starters, ... Read More
Rating:  - When Robots Run Themselves
Stross is one of the newer hard-sf voices, and his previous books have shown a great inventiveness and a plethora of ideas and concepts that go well beyond what we've seen in the field before. This book, while firmly grounded in homage to some of the great early SF masters of Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke, is in many ways just as inventive as his earlier books.
The situation is a solar system populated entirely by robots; their creators, us poor humans, having given up the ghost a couple ... Read More
Rating:  - A different kind of post-human SF
Saturn's Children marks Stross's serious progression as a writer.
He's doing far more advanced tricks with plot and exposition than in his previous novels.
The way he drops in the back story, such that when the lead is called a "robot" you installing know it's like using the N-word.
Oh, yeah - what's this book about? It's a different kind of post-human novel; mainly because humanity has died off. But before they did so (and potentially _because_ they did so) they ... Read More
Rating: - edge of the envelope
Stross is an accomplished story teller in the space opera arena.This story is at the edge of what one finds in the traditional SiFispace
Rating:  - Ignore the all the reviews posted by Americans
This is one hell of an entertaining and thought provoking book. Again, the book is almost entirely centred on a female character - one Freya Nakamachi - Baroque and Renaissance musician, professional concubine and kick-arse cybernetic dame! (you gotta be interested after a resumé like that!?) One of his best characters since Reeve in "Glasshouse" and Sue, the Lesbian Scottish cop in "Halting State".
The book is full of ideas and some challenging ones - like can we produce artificial intelligences ... Read More
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