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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This was a bit different than the YA I usually read - much heavier on the sci-fi aspect. I enjoy sci-fi, but there was some cheesy-ness to the some of the characters and interactions that just didn’t do it for me. There were some cool concepts and world building though, and overall it was a pretty fun read. I would recommend the book to teens, as other reviewers have mentioned. I received a copy through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer program. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Interesting and somewhat offbeat YA story with nice science fiction elements. I particularly liked the characters and how they interacted. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This is a book that I got from LibraryThing some months ago to review, but it sat on my desktop for months before I remembered to move it onto the Kindle, and then it sat there a while longer before I actually read it. I'm sorry I didn't get to it sooner.This is a nice little YA novel, set in a world where humans have gotten fairly good at using nanotech but not so good that Clarke's Law seems to have taken over, as in Charles Stross' regrettable Glasshouse. Our heroine is a castaway, the apparent sole survivor of a colony ship's contact with the berserker-like Chinzeme, and as the book opens she's fourteen and ready to make a big jump. Literally. From there, things get interesting and don't stop until the end. In contrast to the Hive kids in John Barnes' Jak Jinnaka novels, Skye and her friends have an adolescent innocence about them, which is a nice change of pace, and when the novel comes to an end, you're left wishing there was more to it, or maybe a sequel in the works. Hats off to Linda Nagata for doing a nice job telling the story of a nice young lady who starts her life in the middle of an adventure and looks to be having more in the near future. I particularly liked that the book is tightly written, without a lot of time being spent describing the orbital colony Skye calls home, the planetary base at the other end of the beanstalk, or any of the other potentially distracting things in the background of our heroine's adventures. We get a little background for her friends, and none of it is wasted because everything that's mentioned comes back later and is put to use. I liked it a lot, and I think your teenaged kids might, too. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I found it really hard to get through this book, I notice others have said the same thing and I agree, I would probably have liked it more if I was a 14yr old girl. The story seems a little forced in places and a bit simplistic but the target audience would probably find it a good read.no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesThe Nanotech Succession (1.5)
In an isolated star system far from any other human outposts, a space-faring "lifeboat" was discovered by a scientist from the city of Silk. Inside the lifeboat was a two-year-old girl in frozen sleep. She had no name and no history. The people of Silk believed her to be the only survivor of a star-faring great ship attacked in the void and destroyed by the automated warships of the alien Chenzeme. They rescued and revived the child, and named her "Skye."But the people of Silk face dangers of their own. Their city is in space, built around the column of a space elevator that rises from the planet's surface into high orbit. Three-hundred kilometers below is the wild, plague-ridden planet called Deception Well. Far-above, a dusty nebula shrouds the star system. The nebula is made of drifting dust, gas, and tiny nanomachines left behind by an ancient and mysterious race. The microscopic nanomachines were made to attack and destroy any Chenzeme ship that enters the system . . . but they will defend against other threats too, and they have no loyalty to human life.Still, life in Silk is comfortable, and the dangers of their world mean little to the city's youth. Skye has grown into an adventurous, independent teen-but more and more she wonders about her mysterious past. Where did she come from? Who were her parents? And, most importantly, was she really the only survivor? When evidence of her past begins to awaken within her own body, Skye finds herself driven to explore both the dangerous surface of Deception Well and the airless reaches of outer space.She is not alone in her quest. Her best friend Zia Adovna, the handsome young astronomer Devi Hand, and the adventurous Buyu Mkolu join her as she seeks to prove that other survivors of the great ship might still be found. No library descriptions found. |
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Gefallen hat es mir aber gut. Skye ist gerade 14 geworden und mit ihrer besten Freundin Zia stellt sie so allerhand an. Die Stadt Silk befindet sich auf einer Plattform entlang des Seils eines riesigen Weltraumfahrstuhls, das bis zum Planet Deception Well hinunter reicht. Die Menschen in Silk leben ein glückliches und zufriedenes Leben, Krankheiten und Krieg gehören der Vergangenheit an. Jeder, der noch keine 100 Jahre alt ist, wird als ado bezeichnet, die Abkürzung für adolescent, während alle über 100 Jahre real people sind. Mir hat diese Herangehensweise an das Thema ‚ewiges Leben‘ sehr gut gefallen und entsprechend nachsichtig gehen die echten Erwachsenen mit den ‚Jugendlichen‘ um.
Skye ist überzeugt, dass es noch weitere lifeboats da draußen gibt. Lifeboats wie das, in dem sie gefunden wurde. Aber die Leute in Silk haben kein Interesse danach zu suchen, überzeugt, dass man sie schon längst entdeckt hätte, wenn die da wären.
Zusammen mit Zia, Buyu und ihrem neuen Freund/potentielle erste große Liebe, versuchen sie, die Obersten der Stadt vom Gegenteil zu überzeugen.
In typischer Manier Pubertierender und überzeugt, es besser zu wissen als alle anderen, verfolgen sie ihr großes Ziel, mit typischen Fehltritten und viel Risiko. Nagata hat eine tolle Art zu schreiben und auch wenn ich mit den ‚Teenagern‘ nicht so richtig warm werden wollte, so lagen sie mir doch irgendwie am Herzen und es war schön, ihre Freundschaft und ihre Abenteuer zu verfolgen.
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Meiner Meinung nach ein YA-Roman, der durchaus auch den Weg ins Deutsche finden sollte, denn Skye und Zia sind mal nicht die typischen Protagonistinnen, die verliebt und mit rosa Brille dumme Dinge tun, sondern sie haben ihren eigenen Kopf und der ist mal irgendwie so erfrischend anders. Aufgrund der Kürze des Buches und dank des wirklich schönen Schreibstils Nagatas, war das Buch ein wahrer Leckerbissen für zwischendurch, den ich sehr gern weiterempfehle. ( )