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Loading... This alien shore (original 1998; edition 1998)by C. S. Friedman
Work detailsThis Alien Shore by C. S. Friedman (Author) (1998)
harder sci-fi than I usually read, traveller-with-a-secret-past premise (  ) EhEh | Apr 3, 2013 |  7/7/12 This Alien Shore, C. S. Friedman, 1998. A space opera with an interesting premise; when humans first went to the stars the technology mutated them. This terrified those left on earth, and they shut off contact, leaving the first explorers stranded. When the mutated humans, Variants, developed an interstellar civilization, with presumably different technology, they returned to connect Earth into the civilization. The story within this setting focuses on a young girl who is forced to flee powerful forces that chase her through the galaxy. Heavy on computer programming technology and hackers, no mathematics except for a few nice quotes. “... the fractal dance of each cloud formation, the infinite mathematical complexity which bonded each moment to the next ...” “(music is) a mathematical perfection whose mere shadow inspires symphonies ...” “... the first tenet of chaos theory – infinitesimally small input can alter infinitely large systems ...” (  ) drardavis | Jul 10, 2012 | I'm of a great fan of Friedman's work outside of her Coldfire trilogy, but I would recommend this book as a clever and intriguing read. ( ) TheBooknerd | Jun 7, 2012 | Enjoyed this read, but it could have been just a little shorter. ( ) ElizabethAnnS | Aug 25, 2011 | Group D  gilsbooks | May 17, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0886777992, Mass Market Paperback)The spaces between space are full of dragons. The colonists on Guera went mad--one of the plague of mutations that affected all human colonies and drove Earth back from the stars--but their controlled madness meant that they and they alone could cope with hyperspace, could ask the Earth humans they and other new human species hate for past betrayal back into space. But a virus is infecting the human-machine interfaces by which they live and stay sane, and Earth's racists are the prime suspects. Meanwhile, Jamisia, the subject of endless experiments and host to a myriad of alternate personalities, flees Earth's bloody corporate politics in pursuit of safe haven--and everyone wants a piece of her. The hacker known as Phoenix just wants revenge on the makers of the virus for the death of friends.C.S. Friedman's galaxy full of altered humanities and vicious politics has room in it for tenderness and honor; this is a satisfying space opera because it is full of characters, some of whom will do the right thing. She is good on what stays the same when things change--the austere, mad, security expert Masada and the sweet slob Phoenix are recognizable types, but attractively individualized. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk (retrieved from Amazon Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:44:15 -0500) "It is the second age of space colonization. The first age, humanity's initial attempt to people the stars, ended in disaster when it was discovered that Earth's original super-luminal drive did lasting genetic damage to all who used it - permanently mutating Earth's far-flung colonists in mind and body. Abandoned by their home planet, exiles in alien star systems, these variant humans had no choice but to survive any way they could."--BOOK JACKET."Jamisia has always lived in Shido Habitat, a corporate satellite in Earth's outer orbit. She has no memories of her parents, but has been nurtured by the fatherly care of her tutor. Protected by her biological brain-ware systems, and accompanied by the many voices in her head, she has grown into a resourceful, if unusual, young woman. When Shido is viciously attacked by corporate raiders, Jamisia's tutor risks his life to smuggle her onto a ship bound for the nearest ainniq - the Gueran jump station to the Up-and-Out. But before he dies, he tells her something which rocks the foundation of her world - the raiders were searching for her...."--BOOK JACKET.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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