Jeff Duntemann

This has always been a good book, but for me, Assembly was always pretty rough. I've known people who took to it immediately, but most I've know are more like me and find it tough to master. I have tried playing around with it on my RPi3, but not very seriously. Still, a good foundational and reference book, so recommended.

I'm not going to go into a lot of details of the plot and writing in this book as you can get the first chapter from the author's website:

http://www.duntemann.com/CunningBloodExcerpt.pdf

Give that a try and see if it drags you into the story. The rest of the novel is of the same caliber. It's fun, fast-paced and (very important) believable. And its chocked full of fascinating technology that the scifi reader in me loves. There were a few scifi tropes (such as the prison planet) but they are show more well-used and make the story better rather than just prop up a lazy plot.

I kept coming back to the book and was always slightly frustrated to have to put it aside. The best stories are the ones where you keep wanting to know what happens next, and this novel is among them. In short - an impressive first novel. show less

It's been a long time since I read this book. I remember this being one of my favorite books at university.