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dsrtao_The AI War, book one: The Big Boost_, Daniel Keys Moran
This is not an April Fool's Day post. The book is available for sale in electronic, non-DRM formats at www.fsand.com -- also the other Continuing Time books.
If you don't know about Trent the Uncatchable -- the best thief ever, born a non-telepath in a family of telepaths, who walked through a wall to escape his enemies -- then you may have several books of pleasure awaiting you. And if you do know about Trent, then you probably haven't read this book yet.
Two words about it, for those who haven't reached for their credit cards yet: this is a semi-near future SF saga, with a point of divergence somewhere in the 1970s. There are elements which go back and forth many thousands of years, but most of the action is in 2020-2080, so far. Although overpopulation was a concern, it is not really a Grim Meathook future -- most people in most places, on and off Earth, are living pretty good lives.
It is good, it is a complete story, and it is clearly the beginning of another big chunk of the Continuing Time. As with Brust, if Moran survives long enough to complete writing the sequence, the world will be a better place.
This is not an April Fool's Day post. The book is available for sale in electronic, non-DRM formats at www.fsand.com -- also the other Continuing Time books.
If you don't know about Trent the Uncatchable -- the best thief ever, born a non-telepath in a family of telepaths, who walked through a wall to escape his enemies -- then you may have several books of pleasure awaiting you. And if you do know about Trent, then you probably haven't read this book yet.
Two words about it, for those who haven't reached for their credit cards yet: this is a semi-near future SF saga, with a point of divergence somewhere in the 1970s. There are elements which go back and forth many thousands of years, but most of the action is in 2020-2080, so far. Although overpopulation was a concern, it is not really a Grim Meathook future -- most people in most places, on and off Earth, are living pretty good lives.
It is good, it is a complete story, and it is clearly the beginning of another big chunk of the Continuing Time. As with Brust, if Moran survives long enough to complete writing the sequence, the world will be a better place.
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Date: 2011-04-04 07:07 pm (UTC)I bought it on the train this morning; I'm about 1/3 through by now. I think I've spotted the mark of quality storytelling.