This Alien Shore
by:
C.S. Friedman (author)
In the first age of Earth's colonization of space, the FTL drive that powered the starships caused severe genetic damage in the colonists. Generations later, a new mutated race arises, one which can safely conduct people between the stars. But since they use their ability to tightly control all...
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In the first age of Earth's colonization of space, the FTL drive that powered the starships caused severe genetic damage in the colonists. Generations later, a new mutated race arises, one which can safely conduct people between the stars. But since they use their ability to tightly control all interstellar commerce, rival interests soon seek to break the monopoly. And when a lab-raised young woman narrowly escapes kidnapping, even as a rogue computer virus wreaks havoc on the interstellar "Net," she must flee into "alien shores," evading her pursuers while attempting to uncover the secrets of her own existence.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780886777982 (0886777984)
Publish date: September 1st 1998
Publisher: DAW Hardcover
Edition language: English
So this made it onto the Virtual Speculation reading list based on curiosity and recommendations of this novel as a key piece of SF literature. I expected a Space Opera with some of the normal dissection/discussions of society that one often finds in rich speculative fiction. What I did not expect...
TL;DR version: The bastard love-child of Dune and Neuromancer, but the awesome kind of bastard-child, the one that ends up forging his own destiny and writing his name in the stars.Longer version:I read this book as a teenager, and was deeply affected by it. Later, I read it as an adult, as was not-...
I loved, loved this book as a teen. As an adult I'm a bit more critical--the science is flawed in a lot of places, and it could have used an editor's attention to the numbers given for times, distances, and populations, which frequently change by an order of magnitude from scene to scene--but you kn...
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