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Title: Aftermath by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0-553-57738-7 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 03 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.92 (26 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Well written story with great characters but no ending.
Comment: Never having read a Sheffield book, I was thoroughly entertained with Aftermath until I realized that there weren't too many pages left to adequately explain the unanswered. Oh great I picked up another scifi novel that the author feels compelled to make into a trilogy. I don't know about you but I hate that. By the time a sequel comes out I will feel compelled to read Aftermath again. Maybe that's not all bad but...I hope at least that the retail price is less than $14.
Rating: 2
Summary: Very Slow!
Comment: A galactic catastrophe releases radiation on the Earth, which in effect destroys all computer chips. As a result any technology created after 1980 is rendered useless. Additionally the radiation causes weather and other conditions that wipeout significant portions of South America and Asia. Like the novel Lucifer's Hammer, the remainder focuses on specific survivors to the tragedy. However, where Lucifer's Hammer had very intriguing characters and a fast-flowing exciting plot, this book lulls you to sleep for almost 300 pages until anything interesting happens.
This is when group of Mars explorers attempt a very dangerous re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere. On top of this a serial child killer and a leader of a fanatical cult are released from "judicial sleep." (This is a method of keeping the person asleep during their incarceration. Persons with extremely long sentences would just sleep until they died). The child killer just happens to be one of the few people still alive that can help some terminal cancer patients. Yeah right!
The other main part of the story centers around the president and his inability to perform sexually and his problem with a former girlfriend. I found it very hard to not just skip over these pages while I was reading them.
Rating: 3
Summary: The race to the bottom
Comment: Here's a typical tale - you pick up a book that has a surefire plot - Alpha Centauri goes nova and all microchips on Earth are destroyed. You read the first few pages or so at the bookstore and become convinced you have a winner. At home, though, after the initial action over the nova settles down you begin your journey to Dullsville.
There's the matter of survivors and they're not your next door neighbors. Group 1 is a cult that worships a lady who has been arrested and placed in a penitential coma (think "Minority Report"). Group 2- three cancer victims who just happened to need the help of someone who - guess what? - is also in a coma. Then there is a scientist and a madman joined in a symbiotic relationship. Where are the real people you and I know???
It gets worse. The "science" is, well, take one randome selecgtion: Millions of chips are found in a mountain hideout but are too old to use. So some guy "slaps a bunch together in parallel" and now they can create holograms. Right, and I'm Elvis. President Steinmetz gets in on the action with a lot of fakey dialogue...politics as usual. He tries to hold the world together and sure enough, gets the advice he needs at the last minute to save the day. But no, at the end we discover that the REAL danger is not here yet - "energy particles that can rip through both skin and the flimsy shield we've constructed. What to do, what to do? Oh well, the sequel will provide all the answers.
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Title: Starfire (Bantam Spectra) by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0553577395 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dark as Day (Cold As Ice) by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0812580311 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Cold As Ice by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0812511638 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Billion Dollar Boy: A Jupiter Novel (Jupiter Novel) by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0812538919 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Convergent Series by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0671877917 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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