by C.S. Friedman
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...
3 stars