Sunday, January 28, 2007

Book tag! Ow my head.

Oh, not that kind of book tag. Look to Daorcey's post below to see the instructions. Here's my contribution.

He looked at Bear for a long time. They had pressurized the lander's cabin, and all wore skinsuits with the facemasks off. Bear's face was pinched, narrow and the eyes stragely vacant; but his symbiot had kept him clean and healthy all this time.
-Karl Schroeder, The Cold Convergence, The Engine of Recall

If you'd like to find out more about this story, go here. I've been reading more of Schroeder's stuff and finding it interesting. His latest book, Sun of Suns, takes inside of a 3000 km wide inflated spherical structure that floats in space.

From Publishers Weekly
The swashbuckling space settlers of Schroeder's fantastical novel (after 2005's Lady of Mazes) inhabit warring nation-states inside a planet-sized balloon called Virga. This adventure-filled tale of sword fights and naval battles stars young Hayden Griffin of the nation of Aerie, orphaned by an attack on the artificial sun that his parents tried to build. He grows up to seek vengeance against the man who led it, Adm. Chaison Fanning of the nation Slipstream. Getting close to Fanning, though, entails infiltrating the flagship Rook and interfering in the schemes of the admiral's wife, the devious Venera. Schroeder layers in scientific rationales for his air-filled, gravity-poor world—with its spinning cylinder towns and miles-long icebergs—but the real fun of this coming-of-age tale includes a pirate treasure hunt and grand scale naval invasions set in the cold, far reaches of space. (Oct.)
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Although pirate battles are always good, the fun is in imagining who created this balloon and are its inhabitants aware of the outside world? And like all good sci fi, it's a trilogy.

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