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In this 1995 Nebula Award-winning novel, a revolution is transforming the formerly passive Earth-colony of Mars. While opposing political factions on Mars battle for the support of colonists, scientists make a staggering scientific breakthrough that at once fuels the conflict and creates a united Mars front, as the technically superior Earth tries to take credit for it. Backed against a wall, colonial leaders are forced to make a monumental decision that changes the future of Mars forever.
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Of storms and meteorology I know very little. Weather in Vancouver is frontal, and that makes for a rather boring, though not entirely predictable, progression. The description of global warming and storm formation in the book seems plausible, and not inconsistent with what I do know. What I do know, of course, is computers, communications, and viruses. These play a large role in the book, pretty much as large as the hurricanes themselves. Let's start with the viruses. First off, the entire computing infrastructure of the book appears to be very similar to Fred Cohen's theorized viral computing environment. A far cry from the simplistic code fragments of today, the programs of the book's time are all, to some extent, viral and repli... Rest of this review on the detail page
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A biochip in presidential candidate William Cozzano's brain hardwires him to a computerized polling system that channels the mood of the electorate directly into his brain. Neal Stephenson fans should note (if they don't already know) that Stephen Bury is his pen name. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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I really like David Brin's stuff. So, I'm going to review this book even though I can't say much about the science in it. (This is not to say his science is bad: far from it. His science is good, particularly physics, and it comes as no surprise that physics is his field. Wisely, however, he refrains from explaining any of the marvels of his future societies.) Brin's characters are well developed, realistic and sympathetic. His stories are well crafted. This shows up more clearly in a collection of short stories, such as "Otherness", than in his novels, which have greater room for development. His plots twist and evade prediction, but always beckon the reader to follow. He is definitely in command of the surprise "hook" at the ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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The Phaze/Proton series is a combination of fantasy and science fiction, so Anthony doesn't have to be accountable for much. In this, the last (oh, please!) of the series, though, he falls prey to "fiction series disease": the overwhelming urge to explain mistakes you made earlier. Proton/Phaze has been portrayed as having the south pole pointed towards the sun, and yet has light overhead everywhere. This, explains Anthony, is because Phaze/Proton is a hollow shell surrounding a black hole. The black hole, as everyone knows, sucks light into itself so that light falls straight down onto the surface of the planet. In fact, because of some other diddling earlier in the series, Proton/Phaze is a half-sphere. Presumably this means the ha... Rest of this review on the detail page
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