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Title: Coyote by Allen Steele ISBN: 0-441-01116-0 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (25 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Right wing revolutions and interstellar exploration
Comment: Coyote is the fourth moon for a Jovain gas giant orbiting a star 46 lightyears from earth. This is the destination of the colony ship URSS Alabama, and its rather interesting crew of hijackers, soldiers and colonists.
Seventy years in the future, the United States has gone through a third revolution and the result is repressive regime that has abrogated all rights except for the party elite. The Alabama is a monument to the new regime.
Captain Robert E. Lee (a great great grandson of the CSA General) conspires to launch the Alabama with a slightly different crew than envisioned by the current government. They succeed (with difficulty) and commence a 230 year journey to Coyote.
Coyote is both inviting and deadly. This is an adventure story that brings forth the rugged frontier spirit buried in the American soul and the colonists rise to the occaision.
Allen Steele just gets better and better and better. Don't miss his latest novel!
Rating: 4
Summary: Great escape fiction
Comment: I have to confess, this one takes me back to my younger days, when as an adolescent, I would search for a good sci-fi adventure story. Coyote is such a book. I would have loved it as a young teen, I enjoy it immensely now. Sure some of the science is suspect; hence the 4-star rather than 5-star rating. But, hey, it's a great adventure story!
In the not too distant future, a tyrannical government in what used to be part of the U.S. builds a ship designed to travel 40-odd light years to a solar system with a habitable moon orbiting a Saturn-like planet.At the last minute, a plot by freedom-loving rebels comes to fruition, and the ship is taken and heads for it's destination. The system's planets and satellites are named according to native-American mythology. The moon Coyote is the site of the colony. There are forests, extensive waterways(no real oceans, altho a world girdling equatorial river reaches the size of a small sea), and native wildlife. The major characters in the book, of all ages, have to come to grips with making a home in their new world.
All told, this tale, in a distant setting rather like an alien version of Canada, will entertain readers from jr. high onward. A rollicking good time, highly recommended!
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid work by Steele
Comment: As a fan of Allen Steele's Near Space series who hasn't read much from the author since the publication of A King of Infinite Space in the late 90's, I was pleasantly surprised to find that his latest book is a return to his most potent subject, that of the human exploration of space. From interviews and personal correspondence with Mr. Steele (yes, he's generous enough to respond if you send him e-mail), I gather that Coyote was originally envisioned as a sequel to A King of Infinite Space, which concludes with the main characters blasting off in a colony ship to a nearby solar system. Instead of continuing the series, though, Steele eventually decided to take the basic idea and create a new universe. The result is Coyote, which is as readable and entertaining as anything Steele has written. As a portrait of humans exploring a new world, it can easily stack up against anything in the Near Space series. Many of the stories, in particular "The Days Between" and "Across the Eastern Divide," show how much Steele has matured as a writer since some of the early stories in Sex and Violence in Zero-G. The novel has two major flaws, though. The first lies in the structure of the novel, which is very episodic. Although this is understandable considering that it originated as a series of short stories, a little more editing could have produced a tighter work. However, it does allow for the inclusion of multiple perspectives and a greater overview of the different people that compose the Liberty community than could be afforded by a traditional focus on one or two main characters. The second flaw is the fact that Steele's personal politics (which seem to be those of an old-school Truman Democrat) occasionally interject themselves a little too nakedly into the text, particularly in the beginning. As a native of South Carolina, I find the idea of a near-future U.S. dominated by right-wing southern fascists a little irritating. However, these are just minor reservations. I recommend Coyote to anyone interested in Allen Steele and look forward to the sequel coming out soon.
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Title: Probability Space (The Probability Trilogy) by Nancy Kress ISBN: 0765345145 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Red Thunder by John Varley ISBN: 0441010156 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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