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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2008-1... (  ) cshalizi | Sep 26, 2009 |  Possible spoiler alert. Despite the title and the multiple back references to Quantum Physics, the novel doesn't strike me as "hard sci-fi" at all, more like a typical character driven space opera masquerading as hard sci-fi. The storyline seems at times implausible and convoluted: For example... (1) Li, a soldier with lapses in memory, is sent by the Security Council to investigate the murder of Sharifi and disruption of mining operations. If the mining operations are so important, how about a team of professional investigators and a batallion of peacekeepers for backup? (2) Why would mining of such an essential resource be leased out to some shady company in the first place, especially if there are suspicions of dealings with the Syndicates? (3) A love affair with an A.I.? Ahem. Despite somewhat convoluted plot, it was a decent read and a good debut novel. ( ) betula.alba | Aug 9, 2009 | This book is a nice blend of hard sci-fi and an interesting story with well fleshed out major characters. Lots of interesting material and makes for a fun read if you love the sci-fi genre. vamshi | Jul 30, 2009 | Spin State is a solid hard-sf outing with a little bit of everything - cyberspace, physics, novel FTL transport, complex relationships, politics, military aspects, and in-the-trenches work and fighting. After a quick action-sequence start, the story settles into a mystery, with the reader and the protagonist thrown into unfamiliar ground with insufficient information. Systems and interconnections are slowly revealed in a way that keeps the pages turning. While this novel owes a lot to Gibson's Neuromancer, it stands on its own. (  ) klh | Apr 8, 2009 | Spin State is heavy on cyberpunk, heavy on mystery, unrelenting in keeping this reader in suspense and uncertainty and awe. Moriarty builds impressively upon the work of earlier cyberpunk giants and creates a very enjoyable space colonization/alien encounter story, some in real space, some in cyberspace IN SPACE, that is quintessential and uniquely hers. Full of adventure and mystery and some multi-dimensional people (human and otherwise) this novel still managed to overwhelm me where the cybernetic and quantum physics sciences were at once dense and under explained. This is a book best read slowly and lovingly, and a definite must for hard science fiction readers. (  ) psybre | Nov 21, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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Major Catherine Li is a veteran United Nations Peacekeeper in a future of world-nations. Humanity has spread across interstellar space by "jumping": teleportation enabled by quantum physics and a bizarre crystal found only on Compson's World. The jumps destroy memory, so jumpers back up their memories on computer. Despite this precaution, frequent jumpers still lose some memories, a fact that poses a far greater problem for Catherine Li than it does for other Peacekeepers. For Li has a dangerous, potentially deadly secret: she's an illegal clone.
When a UN mission goes awry, Li finds herself shipped on solo duty to Compson's World--her home world, to which she'd vowed never to return. Her mission initially seems simple: to determine if the death of brilliant physicist Hannah Sharifi was a crystal-mining accident or cold-blooded murder. Like Li, Sharifi is a clone--in fact, she's Li's genetic twin. Li swiftly finds herself enmeshed in the intertangled politics of the UN, the multiplanetary corporations, the miners, and the human-created Artificial Intelligences, who have enigmatic agendas of their own. --Cynthia Ward
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