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7th Sigma

by Steven Gould (Goodreads Author)

3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 · rating details · 579 ratings · 141 reviews

Welcome to the territory.Leave your metal behind, all of it.The bugs will eat it, and they’ll go right through you to get it…Don’t carry it, don’t wear it, and for god’s sake don’t come here if you’ve got a pacemaker.

The bugs showed up about fifty years ago--self-replicating, solar-powered, metal-eating machines.No one knows where they came from.They don’t like water, thou...more

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Published July 5th 2011 by Tor Books (first published July 1st 2011)

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Jan 14, 2013 April rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, for-review

If I was to take a look at my outfit, I’ve got a metal bracelet on, a zipper, and metal bra hooks, this means that if I was a character living in the Territory in Steven Gould’s 7th Sigma, I'd be screwed. The territory is basically the Southwestern US. It is infested by these dangerous metal eating bugs who don’t give a shit about your flesh and will eat you up if it means getting to sweet delicious alloy. However, people are resilient and willing to build lives without the use of metal, coping...more

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Jan 27, 2013 Kel rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Adventurous kids, martial art students, sci-fi newbies

Shelves: dystopian, sci-fi-ish, kid-teen-characters

The bugs have invaded. Their not alien - they're made out of metal. They'll swarm if one of them is broken, or if metal is uncovered. Their wings are tiny solar-panels, and they can bore a hole straight through you. They eat metal to survive, and to make more bugs. They live in The Territory.

The Territory used to be Texas, and the surrounding areas.

Outside The Territory life continues on - tv, refrigeration, planes, cars and pacemakers. Inside The Territory, life is much different. But Kimble mu...more

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Sep 04, 2012 Colleen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Kimble is a smart kid who knows he'd rather be on the streets of the Territory than under the heavy hand of his drunken father. Then he meets Ruth, who is leaving a divorce behind to open a new dojo deep in the Territory. They get along better than they should, and so the story rolls. Kim is a smart boy who is already mostly grown up at thirteen, but looks much smaller and younger even than that. With an adult reckoning, incredible aikido skills, and a strong need for justice, Kim is an easy rec...more Kimble is a smart kid who knows he'd rather be on the streets of the Territory than under the heavy hand of his drunken father. Then he meets Ruth, who is leaving a divorce behind to open a new dojo deep in the Territory. They get along better than they should, and so the story rolls. Kim is a smart boy who is already mostly grown up at thirteen, but looks much smaller and younger even than that. With an adult reckoning, incredible aikido skills, and a strong need for justice, Kim is an easy recruit for undercover work for the Territory Rangers.

The challenge in the Territory is the Bugs. No one knows where they came from - a lab experiment gone bad, an Army experiment ditto, outer space, wrath of God - but the end result is that nothing metal or electronic can survive in the Territory. The Bugs will eat it. They swarm on exposed pipes, house frames, cars, pacemakers, metal teeth fillings... So either you survive without metal or you leave for Outside.

The Bugs have busted the Territory back to the... plastic age. Everything is glass, plastic, composite, or back to the good old days of wood, stone, clay, and fiber. Horses are the main mode of transportation once again, and theater is live again too.

The book is built in parts, mostly because there isn't one single plot that Gould wants to explore. He wants to tell us about Kim and Ruth, and the people of the Territory, and the exploits that Kim has while working for the Rangers. But there isn't one overarching plot line, adventure, or issue that is driving the book. Gould doesn't even pretend. So I could pick up the book, read to a good stopping point, and pick it up again later. What is even better, Gould doesn't try to explain the Bugs. They are there, they work, they have rules like any science fiction universe, but they are not the point of the story. They are a challenge to overcome in the Territory just like bandits or cactus or bad water.

Once I realized that this was really a western disguised as a science fiction, I totally changed my perspective on it. It was a compilation of short Ranger stories pretending to be longer short stories pretending to be sci/fi. So, when I started looking at it like a Western, where the issues of riding the territory and just getting there were half the challenge, it became a good book. If I had stubbornly stuck to this being some kind of Contact book, I would have been vastly disappointed.

I picked it up because Kim's street fight in front of Ruth was featured in Opening Acts.

I recommend it to people who enjoy westerns, old-fashioned Rangers stories, and like both with a sprinkling of science fiction on top.(less)

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Aug 29, 2012 David Davies rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction

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Aug 08, 2012 Tami Veldura rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction, martial-arts, post-apocolyptic

The bugs will go through anything to eat metal, self-replicate, and have completely devastated the western seaboard of the United States. Kimble lives in the now metal-barren Territory and builds a life after his abusive father with an Aikido instructor.

I really enjoyed this book. The pace was great, the characters were interesting. I wasn't enthralled to the point of un-put-down-able but the premise was engrosing.

However, there was more than one spot in the narrative where sections of time are...more The bugs will go through anything to eat metal, self-replicate, and have completely devastated the western seaboard of the United States. Kimble lives in the now metal-barren Territory and builds a life after his abusive father with an Aikido instructor.

I really enjoyed this book. The pace was great, the characters were interesting. I wasn't enthralled to the point of un-put-down-able but the premise was engrosing.

However, there was more than one spot in the narrative where sections of time are skipped and there's NO indication this has happened. The beginning of the story the main character is 13, by the end he's at least 18 and leaving for college but at no point is there a clear sign that significant time (ie: more than a day) has passed.

Second, and related, there's more than one spot where I felt an entire swath of story was simply missing from the narrative. At one point in particular the main character is sparring in the dojo and there's a single line refering to passing out due to being hit by a whip. This came out of nowhere and had no relation to the paragraph which preceded it. I re-read the previous page just to make sure I wasn't skipping anything. The whip event in question is later recounted in enough detail that I was certain I had skipped an entire chapter of story- no such chapter exists. I don't know if it was written and removed (that's what I feel) or just poorly hinted at and later detailed, but I was bothered and confused.

Don't allow these two details to stop you from reading the book, however. I still consider it 5 star worthy and an excellent afternoon read.

***SPOILER ALERT! STOP READING HERE!!***

***SPOILER ALERT! STOP READING HERE!!***

The end of the novel closes with Kimble going to college and talking with a federal agent that he spent much of the book working with. It's reveiled that the bugs are believed to be alien in origin. There was NOTHING in the ENTIRE book that would possibly lead to this conclusion. It came out of nowhere and utterly knocked me out of the story. Up until that point I was honestly curious about the bug problem. Now I'm just disappointed. 'They're all actually aliens' is almost as bad as 'it was all a dream.'(less)

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Aug 01, 2012 Victor rated it 5 of 5 stars

Finally! A young adult book where the main character is not wrought with emotion. 7th sigma is set in a dystopian desert southwest. Bugs have taken over that area. Not just any bugs. Bugs that will eat any scrap of metal there is. There are people who have decided to live in the what is now referred to as the Territory. They have adapted to living in this barron land with these creatures. They have had to do without though. Nothing metal inside or out. Kimble is one of those people. A boy just t...more

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Jul 22, 2012 Matthew rated it 3 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed Jumper and Wildside by Steven Gould, so I thought I would check this out. Plus, I had the pleasure of meeting him and his wife many years ago now when they came up to Faribanks, Ak for a writer's workshop. I thought both of them were nice, interesting people who came across as really caring about talking to aspiring writers.

7th Sigma didn't disappoint, it is classic juvenile sci-fi. And I mean that in the best Heinlein-esque sense. I guess these days we say "young-adult" fiction...more

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Jul 13, 2012 Fuzzy rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed Steven Gould's Jumper books, so when I saw that he had a new one out I picked it up enthusiastically, not even minding that it was the first of a planned series*. 7th Sigma is set in the American Southwest in a zone where nanotechnolgy "bugs" consume all metal, making most modern technology impossible to use in the zone. Our young hero, Kimble Monroe, goes from street urchin to martial arts apprentice to secret agent, and gets glimpses of the secrets that the Territory might hol...more

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Mar 22, 2012 Muccamukk rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

Cute summary: Kipling's Kim set in a post-apocalyptic wild west. Which description really under serves the book. It follows the varied adventures of the orphan Kimble in a present-day New Mexico that also happens to have vicious metal-eating bugs (along the lines of Replicators from Stargate, only they fly). He attaches himself to an Aikido instructor who lost her dojo in the divorce and has moved into the territory to start afresh, and one of the territorial Rangers, who take Kimble under their...more

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Dec 14, 2011 Nathan Simpson rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm a long fan of Rudyard Kipling's Kim, and this story is an open homage to that, set in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic American southwest and paying at least as much tribute to the Western genres I read so much of as a kid. It was an interesting world, and the story was fairly carefully written.

I've studied aikido for some years, so the martial arts part was well-written, but made me a bit uneasy. There is a bit of the "martial arts discipline turns people into thoughtful, well-adjusted humans...more

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Nov 20, 2011 Douglas rated it 3 of 5 stars

Fans of Michael Crichton know the formula. You take a sliver of technology, let it go awry, and then send in a mixed team of experts to stop it or rescue the previous team. What you get is Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain, Coma, Runaway, Disclosure, etc. These books are ripe to be made into movies as they are full of interesting characters and action. In the case of Lost World, the novel was written specifically to become a movie. One of Crichton's latter books was called Prey. In this 2002 novel...more Fans of Michael Crichton know the formula. You take a sliver of technology, let it go awry, and then send in a mixed team of experts to stop it or rescue the previous team. What you get is Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain, Coma, Runaway, Disclosure, etc. These books are ripe to be made into movies as they are full of interesting characters and action. In the case of Lost World, the novel was written specifically to become a movie. One of Crichton's latter books was called Prey. In this 2002 novel that follows this same formula we have a bunch on nano-sized robots escaping and our hero team has to stop them. The novel 7th Sigma starts off in a world that has been ravaged by a creature similar to the one we see in Prey. It is in fact s sequel to the the author's short excerpt "Bugs in the Arroyo" from 2009.

This novel uses this as a plot device to strip the character of the use of any metal or anything with a magnetic field. It's as if they are throw back into the old west but anachronistically instead of steel and iron they have ceramics, plastics, and carbon fiber. In this background we drop a street rat, Kimble/Kim, who is like Orson Scott Card's Ender Wiggin but with dexterity. On the journey our street rat meets a female Kwai Chang Caine -like character who proceeds to take him as a pupil learning how to wax-on, wax-off. The next thing you know a CIA agent shows up and recruits Kim to infiltrate a drug cartel and other missions. There were so many things thrown in that the reader was left with a potpourri that actually worked.

Like any superhero genesis story you needed the right combination for factors in the right quantities to create Kim. My problem with the story is that it seemed to let Kim grow up too fast. In a Card novel Kim would be 13 for the whole novel. Another problem is that the characters are not moving to try to solve the core antagonistic device in the arroyo, the bugs. It would seem that everyone should be trying to find a way to destroy or disrupt the bugs so that the middle of the US could be reclaimed.

In summary if you like the Crichton novels formula then you will enjoy this author's characters and this story. It is a fun read.(less)

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Sep 08, 2011 Michael Hirsch rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really liked this. Like Gould's "Jumper", this is a coming of age story that is very readable by adults. Like Gould's "Helm", Aikido plays a major role. I thought Gould did a better job of integrating the Aikido than in "Helm". The protagonist (Kim) seemed to have really integrated Aikido into his daily life in a way that didn't happen in "Helm". Kim was always pleasant and unassuming, even when given great opportunity to get angry at social slights, he kept is center and didn't worry about wh...more

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Sep 03, 2011 Libby rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: unforgettable, favorites, this-is-the-way-the-world-ends

This was just so much fun to read that I sat back down and reread it immediately. This is my favorite Kipling novel,(Kim), set in John Wayne's West, after an ecological disaster. Metallic Bugs have appeared, seemingly out of nowhere. They eat metal and will eat you to get it. They're not picky:they'll eat chain link fence or your titanium knee prosthesis or the engine block from your old Chevy. Fortunately, they avoid water, and seem to confine themselves to the driest areas of the Southwest, no...more

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Aug 25, 2011 brian dean rated it 5 of 5 stars

I loved it! Right away, flat out, loved it.

I still don't know what the title means; There weren't any first, second, third or other sigmas either. The good news it that means a sequel may be in the works.

I had heard good reviews of the book and bought it. The quotation from Kipling's Kim was unexpected at first but I soon realized that this is a re-imagining of Kim. The science fiction setting, a region of the US where no electronics or metals could be used, allowed a good analog of Kipling's Ra...more

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Aug 18, 2011 Fred Fenimore rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: audible

I suspect if you favor John Wayne westerns over Clint Eastwood ones, you will like this book. What stands out in this book is the main character who, despite his flaws, is a decent, whole person. None of the post modern smirking or boomer confliction that you see in other books, he simply knows what is decent and right and tries very hard to do that. This is a striking accomplishment nearly half a century after The Duke's heyday.

The underlying setting is quite inventive and since its described...more I suspect if you favor John Wayne westerns over Clint Eastwood ones, you will like this book. What stands out in this book is the main character who, despite his flaws, is a decent, whole person. None of the post modern smirking or boomer confliction that you see in other books, he simply knows what is decent and right and tries very hard to do that. This is a striking accomplishment nearly half a century after The Duke's heyday.

The underlying setting is quite inventive and since its described in other reviews, I'll not go into that here other than to say part of the appeal is that clearly the author has some in depth knowledge of the areas and atmosphere. It reminds me of the Tony Hillerman series. By removing all metals, it actually creates a world that is both pre- and post- wild west. Of course the parallel with Serenity has to be mentioned so consider that done. Although I add that while the idea of a sci fi western is not new, this incarnation rises above any other I've read.

So we have a great character and a great setting, but that will be nothing without a story that engages and here is where the author made a very smart choice indeed. The books is really a series of short tales describing important events and transitions in our hero's life. This is very much in the tradition of westerns which I've read over the years, tending toward collections of campfire tales more than epic novels. I've seen quibbles about the ending of the book but I thought it was a good idea to let the book taper off instead of trying to put a "happily ever after" coda on there. It reminds me of the way the film "Jeremiah Johnson" ended- and some folks say he is out there still...

Don't look in the story for an arch villan to act as foil for the hero. This is another distinction that I really enjoy. Rather than creating the Batman-Joker duality, the story assumes that regular people create enough conflict for the hero to deal with. People in hard circumstances can become very hard indeed. Someone has to look out for the weak and our hero chooses that path no matter how hard it is. In a way, its the day after day, thankless grinding of that effort that creates my sympathy because it is mirrored in my own life.

I've not read everything that Steven Gould has written. I really liked Jumper and really disliked the sequel. This book caused me to realize what I liked about Jumper- it was another story of a relatively straightforward hero trying to do the right thing in a complex world. The sequel introduced bad guys and I lost interest. Hopefully, we'll get more and more of these types of stories.

What I would like to see with this book is (1) it to become a best seller, (2) become a series as the Territory s explored in depth with multiple characters, and (3) ScyFY (pronounced si-fee, I mean who are we kidding here?), to make a series of it. This material is rich enough to mine for quite a while - its not a book so much as a baby franchise.
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Jul 26, 2011 Johne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Steven Gould writes a throwback sci-fi story that takes place in a future Southwest where metal-scavenging bugs throw our modern society back into its Western past. The story owes debts both to Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy and Roger Zelazny's passion for Aikido.

Having spent some of my favorite years bombing around the Southwest while I was single, I really envisioned the various places in New Mexico Gould describes. I've had lunch on the bank of the Pecos River and explored the Jemez Pueblo....more

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Jul 18, 2011 Greg rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Before you read this book, read "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling. Firstly, because Kim is a great book. Secondly, because if you read 7th Sigma first, you would be missing all the references to Kim. And thirdly because if you read 7th Sigma first you might give it more credit than it deserves. (And also because it is available for free on the web, kindle, iBooks, etc)

I really like Steven Gould's work, and I think he can tell a realistic sci-fi story like few others, but I really think 7th Sigma didn't l...more Before you read this book, read "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling. Firstly, because Kim is a great book. Secondly, because if you read 7th Sigma first, you would be missing all the references to Kim. And thirdly because if you read 7th Sigma first you might give it more credit than it deserves. (And also because it is available for free on the web, kindle, iBooks, etc)

I really like Steven Gould's work, and I think he can tell a realistic sci-fi story like few others, but I really think 7th Sigma didn't live up to previous work. Maybe partly because I re-read Kim last year for the first time since I was a child, and realized what an amazing, human and lovely book it was. 7th Sigma borrows a number of elements from Kim, and it comes across as unoriginal in those aspects, rather than as a homage, which is a shame because the rest of 7th Sigma is not bad. If Gould had told his own story without any reference to Kim, it would have gotten another star from me.

Aside from the Kim issue, the book didn't fulfill much of the promise that it laid out during the story. The title refers to some kind of exceedingly rare "outlier" events, and while certain "outliers" related to the metal-eating bugs in the novel pop up mysteriously from time to time, neither the cause, purpose or relation to the title is ever explained. At one point the timeline skips ahead, and we completely leave behind the Kimble character we had come to know and now we have a more adult main character to finish out the book.

The science-fictional elements are mere backdrop in this story, unlike Gould's better novels where he seems intent on saying "what if…" and following it through rigorously human responses. Yes there are metal-eating bugs that pose a danger to anyone traveling through the now-nineteenth-century-like Southwest, but they might as well be rattlesnakes, and might the story just as well be set in the nineteenth century? And if you ask that question, you might as well read Kim.

tl;dr: Read Kim by Rudyard Kipling instead; India in the 19th century through the eyes of a precocious, resourceful and daring youth is basically as science-fictional as Gould gets in this intriguing but unfulfilling imitation.(less)

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Jun 27, 2011 Cheryl Clark rated it 1 of 5 stars

I read this to review for a library journal. If I hadn't been required to read the whole thing in order to write the review, I seriously doubt I would have finished it. Anyway...

In the future, robot "bugs" have gone rogue and started eating anything metal...but only in the Southwest for some reason. If a person has any kind of metal in his/her body, that person will be killed by the bugs. Exciting premise, right? Well, that's the end of that part of the story. The rest of the book is a kind of W...more

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Aug 02, 2012 Patricia rated it 3 of 5 stars

The '7th Sigma' was hard for me to rate. I finally decided that I did like it,but there are many things about this book that would make me choose 'it was okay'.
The cover of the book as well as the title made it look and feel like I was about to read a nice sci-fi; but instead it was a coming of age story about a boy living in a difficult area and having to make choices about what kind of person he was going to become. The story center takes place in the 'Territory' that is mostly Southwestern U...more

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Aug 24, 2011 Jason rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2011, e-books

3 Stars

3 is probably a little generous, but this is a short and fast read with some enjoyable moments.

This book started out interesting enough, with a post apocalyptic feel, and a bit of horror to boot.

"There was less blood when it came out of his chest, but the blind black snout of the June-bug-sized creature came right through the remnants of the shirt as if it weren't there. It crawled up and out, wet and red. It stood up high on it's legs and spread it's wings. It buzzed them and the blood s...more

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Aug 04, 2011 Jason Kristopher rated it 3 of 5 stars

I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. The blurb had me going "Wow, that sounds fascinating!" Unfortunately, when all was said and done, the book didn't live up to my expectations. Steven Gould did a good job telling the story of the book, but it's not exactly the one I was expecting from the description.

Gould apparently based the character of Kimble Monroe on the titular character of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim", which I've never read, nor do I have any intention of reading. So I can't co...more

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Apr 11, 2013 Stephen Graham rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In most respects, this can best be viewed as a series of vignettes across a period of a young man's life. Given the explicit model of Kipling's Kim, this isn't surprising. Set in an American Southwest forcibly returned to a 19th-century level of technology by an irruption of metal-eating bugs, this is fundamentally post-apocalyptic. That the rest of the world remains high-tech is of little import. We seen none of it, beyond the occasional item manufactured using techniques impossible within the...more

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Jul 27, 2011 Tim Schmelter rated it 2 of 5 stars

The book's mix of science fiction, wild-west adventure and spycraft thriller has enough promise to carry an entire series, let alone one relatively short book. Unfortunately, Gould's prose is devoid of internal dialog, with all of the action, character interplay and character growth happening in the dialog and description. While that can work effectively, here it feels like a cheat. His teenage hero is so unrealistically competent that to present him without explanation, even a self-supplied one...more

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Jul 15, 2011 Amy rated it 1 of 5 stars

I'm not sure what to rate this...so I'm holding off until I finish this review.

If I rate it based on what I *thought* the book was going to be about, based on the blurbs inside the cover, it was shit.

If I rate it on the "cuteness" of the story, well then, it's probably about a middle grade.

If I rate it on the story continuity and the character development...probably low again.

I think this book had great potential, but if you're looking for a book that talks about the 7th Sigma event: metal bugs...more

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Feb 14, 2012 Steven rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopias, science-fiction

A very interesting concept for a science fiction novel -- what if mysterious little robotic insects appeared one day and ate all the metal in the desert Southwest? But this is more than that -- it's also aspects of westerns, police procedurals, mysteries, a little YA -- I had a hard time pegging this book.

I read it because it appeared on a list of best science fiction novels for 2011, and it certainly is good. It wasn't until the end of the book that I realized this was merely the beginning of a...more

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Jul 26, 2011 Eric rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: scifi, young-adult-fiction, dystopia

Days later Kim is still on my mind. The book seems like fun but is not balanced like I've come to find Gould's other works. If history has taught me anything I can see a reasonable sequel coming along and then I'd probably like this one more.

I know I'm a fan of Gould but the vignettes do get a little tired and the whole experience does leave me wanted more. It doesn't quite flesh out the parts where I'm wondering is he still training? How is he and Sensei getting along. What is life actually tea...more

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Sep 29, 2011 April (CSI:Librarian) rated it 4 of 5 stars

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3.5 Stars - For the most part, I enjoyed myself because honestly how can you not enjoy a genre mash-up of Western and Science Fiction? Plus there's great characters, humor, Akido, and spying. The old episodic feel was great too. The real strength of 7th Sigma was its main character. Kimble was a very sweet, competent, endearing teenager who was very easy to care about. I really enjoyed reading about his sensei, Ruth, as well. I loved watching him accomplish so much so qu...more

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Mar 11, 2012 John Onoda rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a young adult novel that can be enjoyed by adults. It is very reminiscent of some of Robert Heinlein's early books like Citizen of the Galaxy and Have Spacesuit Will Travel, which is high praise in my book. This story is also unabashedly modelled on the classic Rudyard Kipling novel, Kim, about an English orphan boy who grows up in 19th century India, become a spy in the Great Game.

IN this story, the orphan is Kim Monroe and the setting is a future America where the Southwest has become...more

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Jul 10, 2011 lafon حمزة نوفل rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: sci-fi, dystopia, fiction

Hum. What do I think. Aside from including this book in my reading spree, I'm starting to wonder how I manage to get so many books in one genre at the same time (last month was Irish folklore, now it's dystopia). This book had a very interesting summary, practically forcing me to read it... and then it totally deviated from the stated plotline. I spent the entire novel trying to figure out what the bugs were doing in the novel. (view spoiler)...more

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Aug 12, 2012 Michael rated it 1 of 5 stars

The main character of this book was none other than Napoleon Dynamite himself: "yes, Sensei!!". Not only that, Napoleon was invincible. Seriously, he was a teenager who completely mastered martial arts at a young age and completely kicks butt through the entire book. I could not relate to this character at all- nothing bad ever happens to him and there is no situation he can't handle. It got to the point where I was hoping for a tragic ending with the main character getting killed because he was...more

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