Hull Zero Three
When he had been asleep on Starship Hull-03, he had been dreaming of his new home planet and snuggling with a beautiful young woman. Ripped from his reverie, he wakes up wet, naked, freezing, in a dark place. Instead of crewmembers, he found monsters, and indeed, the ship had become so strange,...
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When he had been asleep on Starship Hull-03, he had been dreaming of his new home planet and snuggling with a beautiful young woman. Ripped from his reverie, he wakes up wet, naked, freezing, in a dark place. Instead of crewmembers, he found monsters, and indeed, the ship had become so strange, he doubted that he could trust other survivors. Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three sets you hurdling into space in a pod wrapped in uncertainties.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316072809 (031607280X)
Publish date: October 7th 2011
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
Cataloguing everything wrong with this book would take an age. Suffice to say poor writing combined with poor plotting leaves me frustrated with another Bear novel that had enough interesting ideas to give it a fairly generous two stars. As with previous books I've read by him, I find that the mater...
Inventive hard sci-fi. The Ship is an interesting creation, and the characters were fun, but I was kind of left wondering what the point of the whole thing was. Bear's other books are better by far, especially Blood Music, Queen of Angels, or Heads.
Mystery in Space Poor Teacher! He wakes up cold and naked and without a memory, his only companion a mean little girl, on board a gigantic spaceship called “Ship”… whatever should he do? Why, he should move forward of course, forward, ever forward! Otherwise gigantic monsters out of some monster’s...
I listened to the audio version narrated by Dan John Miller.This story is set on a kilometres long spaceship, on a very long journey to another hospitable world. The main protagonist is awoken from an utopian dream-time by a mysterious human like girl, into a cold unforgiving ship full of strange an...
This Greg Bear tale is told through the sometimes exhaustion-bleared, and sometimes shocked wide-open, eyes of one dude who is woken up to a very nasty shock. Earth was in desperate straights and put together a very fancy, very large ship to send humanity out to a very, very distant star system. The...