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Laura J. Mixon's 21st century is a far cry from utopia; pollution and global warming have begun to ravage the planet and drive a cowering populace indoors. Gangs of violent, dispossessed children prowl city streets, fresh foods are hard to come by, and average temperatures reach 130 degrees Fahrenheit. But along with the bad side effects of technology come the good: scientist Carli D'Auber's stunning advancement in communications allows people to send their consciousness across vast distances and interact at the other end through a remote device called a waldo. Most people are familiar with the small, trash-can-like waldos... but in a secret crèche, children are being raised to pilot humanoid versions called proxies, and they're bein... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Nebula finalist Paul Di Filippo follows The Steampunk Trilogy, a collection of alternate-history novellas, with Ribofunk, a biotechnological hard-SF collection. As the radical shift of genres may indicate, Ribofunk is astonishingly diverse in subjects and styles, even though its 13 stories make up a future history. Despite the generous number of stories, the book's quality and creativity remain high throughout. In "Brain Wars," a genetically engineered disease afflicts an Antarctic army with enough psychobiological horrors to frighten even the famed neurologist Oliver Sacks. In "The Boot," a 2060s-era private investigator seeks a bio-enhanced thief-gambler who can see the dynamics of chaos and may therefore be able to beat any odds, even th... Rest of this review on the detail page
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If reviewers actually like to rip a book apart, this is an embarrassment of riches. OK, first of all we have dorph. Made from endorphins. Natural. Organic. Therefore non-addictive, right? Nobody has heard of psychological addiction, eh? [Sigh.] Spot welding tectonic plates with hydrogen bombs sounds a little risky. H-bombs tend to be better at pushing things apart than holding them together. We have a digging machine that can throw dirt a full mile straight (*dead* straight) up in the air. Now, even though that is many, many orders of magnitude better than anything we've got today, what *really* astounds me is that the dirt, rocks, and other implements of destruction don't immediately fall right back down that same straight mile... Rest of this review on the detail page
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While "Rogue Star" is an enjoyable enough, as a run of the mill science fiction story, it doesn't have anything of the spark that "Firestar" (see reviews) started out with. "Rogue Star" plods along with the pedestrian soap opera plotting that characterized the last part of the first book in the series. (Oh, and there will be a series, or at least a trilogy. The ending is even clearer on that point than was "Firestar." And there are way more loose ends.) As with "Firestar," great care has been taken with orbital dynamics. Environmental issues, and even the complexity of social activism, are handled quite well. A troubleshooting session on a computerized system is also done quite nicely, although th... Rest of this review on the detail page
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It began with Lightpaths... And now, in the near future, humanity will encounter a vast new intelligence. It is virtually immeasurable. It is beyond alien. And it is coming... * Hendrix has been nominated for the Nebula Award and the Pushcart Prize for his short fiction
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