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Orbital Cloud by Taiyo Fujii
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Orbital Cloud (original 2014; edition 2017)

by Taiyo Fujii (Author), Timothy Silver (Translator)

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The global war on terror has a new front--the very edge of outer space. In the year 2020, Kazumi Kimura, proprietor of shooting star forecast website Meteor News, notices some orbiting space debris moving suspiciously. Rumors spread online that the debris is actually an orbital weapon targeting the International Space Station. Halfway across the world, at NORAD, Staff Sergeant Darryl Freeman begins his investigation of the debris. At the same time, billionaire entrepreneur Ronnie Smark and his journalist daughter prepare to check into an orbital hotel as part of a stunt promoting private space tourism. Then Kazumi receives highly sensitive information from a source claiming to be an Iranian scientist. And so begins an unprecedented international battle against space-based terror that will soon involve the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NORAD, and the CIA. This book will thrill and delight readers with its tight plotting and brilliant scientific speculation, and it describes the space enthusiast community with a level of authenticity and passion seldom seen in fiction. One of the best hard SF novels of the year." --Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories… (more)
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Title:Orbital Cloud
Authors:Taiyo Fujii (Author)
Other authors:Timothy Silver (Translator)
Info:Haikasoru (2017), 528 pages
Collections:eBook
Rating:1/2
Tags:Science Fiction, Hate It, Translated

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Orbital Cloud by Taiyo Fujii (2014)

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Sci-fi thriller where a group of people join together to attempt to fight against terrorism from low Earth orbit. Plot itself was interesting & fun to read. I also appreciated the incorporation of physics & CS (though I admit that, as someone who has studied CS, some of that was difficult for me to believe). The story is told by switching between point of view of several different characters, to the point where it could get confusing. The characters themselves often felt like caricatures as well. But enjoyable overall ( )
  brp6kk | May 10, 2023 |
The future is almost here, and we'd better be prepared for it.

Hard science fiction, or is it? ( )
  Eternal.Optimist | Aug 22, 2018 |
I enjoyed Cixin Liu's trilogy and started actively looking for some foreign SF when I came across several sites promoting Orbital Cloud. The teaser looked interesting enough and I bought it as a digital book, since the local book store didn't have it. That probably should have been a red flag. At least this wont end up in a donation bin and be inflicted on someone else.

I haven't finished the book, and I will never finish the book. From the get go it annoyed me. The rich investor/rocket industrialist/entrepreneur is such a blatant copy of Elon Musk, I don't know why he's not named Elon Musk. Except that he lacks any actual character to make him interesting. The nerd of questionable morals is the stereotype of the morbidly obese extreme loner with no social skills. The female characters are described first by their physical attributes: "a black pantsuit and long coat concealed her toned body." And it turns out that character is the female spy-runner who has to have sex with her asset once a week to keep him from wandering off. She's running an economic scam that sells "more than a million" crappy computer cables for $300 each, "are practically free to manufacture" and only netted $2.2 million. So, gross of over $300 million. Profit 0.7% Less than one percent. That's the WORST SCAM EVER. And this is supposed to show her as this manipulative evil genius. And apparently every part of the US has even more surveillance than central London.

But the part where I just put it down and was done was when I read "One thousand and twenty-four, that's two to the power of seven." NO. IT BLODDY WELL ISN'T. And the line isn't from a character that is supposed to not know that. It is one programmer explaining it to another. Which no programmer would ever need to explain. And the (egregiously incorrect) explanation does nothing to inform the reader or further the plot. Ok, the author is Japanese, the novel was written in Japanese and translated to English. That might explain some of the clumsy language. But I'm pretty sure base two math works the same way no matter what country you're in. I don't care if it is the author, the translator or both that is criminally incompetent. At page 54/327 I'm done and I'm not reading another single word. I just wish I could get my time and my money back. ( )
  grizzly.anderson | May 29, 2018 |
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The global war on terror has a new front--the very edge of outer space. In the year 2020, Kazumi Kimura, proprietor of shooting star forecast website Meteor News, notices some orbiting space debris moving suspiciously. Rumors spread online that the debris is actually an orbital weapon targeting the International Space Station. Halfway across the world, at NORAD, Staff Sergeant Darryl Freeman begins his investigation of the debris. At the same time, billionaire entrepreneur Ronnie Smark and his journalist daughter prepare to check into an orbital hotel as part of a stunt promoting private space tourism. Then Kazumi receives highly sensitive information from a source claiming to be an Iranian scientist. And so begins an unprecedented international battle against space-based terror that will soon involve the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NORAD, and the CIA. This book will thrill and delight readers with its tight plotting and brilliant scientific speculation, and it describes the space enthusiast community with a level of authenticity and passion seldom seen in fiction. One of the best hard SF novels of the year." --Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

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