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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://yet.org/2008/08/la_division_ca... (  )planetrobbie | Aug 29, 2008 |   If there was such a thing as sci-fi beach reading, this would be it. It's a fast-paced adventure that doesn't happen to go very deep (although I think that it might intend to). Character development besides the main character is minimal. The more scientific explanations are glossed over with technobabble. There's plenty of sex. The ending is slam-bam and neatly wrapped up. There were lots of bits that were thrown into the book and then never developed (if you can explain to me why this book was better off for the pregnancy bit, please do). Over all this is an entertaining read but it just doesn't require much brain power and therefore isn't very engaging. ( )stubbyfingers | Jun 18, 2008 | Defend the solar system, brothers. The Cassini Division is an organisation that is ready to 'kick posthuman arse', as they put it. A key strategic asset is a wormhole, and the Division realises that anything evolving quickly could appear. It gets a lot less simple than this as societies on Mars and in the Jupiter area come into conflict, as well as Divisions within the division and your garden variety humans One woman and the crew of a ship have to decide what sort of carnage they are willing to inflict on others for preservation, along with some strange consequences of their actions. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/08/cassini-division-ken-macleod.html (  )bluetyson | Jan 8, 2008 | Defend the solar system, brothers. The Cassini Division is an organisation that is ready to 'kick posthuman arse', as they put it. A key strategic asset is a wormhole, and the Division realises that anything evolving quickly could appear. It gets a lot less simple than this as societies on Mars and in the Jupiter area come into conflict, as well as Divisions within the division and your garden variety humans One woman and the crew of a ship have to decide what sort of carnage they are willing to inflict on others for preservation, along with some strange consequences of their actions. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/08/cassini-division-ken-macleod.html ( )bluetyson | Jan 8, 2008 | Defend the solar system, brothers. The Cassini Division is an organisation that is ready to 'kick posthuman arse', as they put it. A key strategic asset is a wormhole, and the Division realises that anything evolving quickly could appear. It gets a lot less simple than this as societies on Mars and in the Jupiter area come into conflict, as well as Divisions within the division and your garden variety humans One woman and the crew of a ship have to decide what sort of carnage they are willing to inflict on others for preservation, along with some strange consequences of their actions. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/08... ( )bluetyson | Aug 12, 2007 | 0.040 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 0312870442, Hardcover)With his third novel, Ken MacLeod elaborates on the future timeline from his first two works, The Star Fraction (1995) and The Stone Canal (1996). Most relevant is book two, which established a colony on the remote world of New Mars via a spatial wormhole created by superhumans--transcendent machine-hosted intelligences called the "fast-folk." The original fast-folk crashed from too much contemplation of their metaphorical navels, but their descendants on Jupiter still harass Earth with virus transmissions that have killed off computers and the Internet. Enter heroine Ellen May Ngwethu of the Cassini Division, an elite space-going force created to defend against the fast-folk. Her wild doings in the 24th century's anarcho-socialist utopia make for fun reading--everyone will covet her smart-matter clothing that can become a spacesuit, combat outfit, evening gown, or satellite dish at will. But the Division's political philosophy is brutally tough, with alarming plans to use a planet-wrecking doomsday weapon against "enemies," who may not be hostile at all. In a climax of slam-bang space battle, MacLeod crashes the ongoing ethical debate into a brick wall and leaves you gasping. Witty, skillful, provocative, but just a trifle too glibly resolved. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:51 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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