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Hunter's Run

by George R.R. Martin, Gardner R. Dozois, Daniel Abraham

3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 · rating details · 1,094 ratings · 165 reviews

Like so many others, Ramon Espejo ran from the poverty and hopelessness of the Third World to the promise of a new world--joining a host of like-minded workers and dreamers aboard one of the great starships of the mysterious, repulsive Enye. But the life he found on the far-off planet of Sao Paulo was no better than the one he had abandoned.

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Published January 8th 2008 by Eos (first published 2003)

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Aug 10, 2008 Michael rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Sci-fi fans and those who enjoy character-based struggles

I did not like the protagonist of "Hunter's Run" at all. Of course, that was the point. By the end of the book I did find myself respecting and rooting for him, but still not liking him.
The sci-fi elements of this book don't get in the way of the story, as they do with some books in this genre. (I'm not a huge sci-fi fan, really, so when it devolves into nothing but aliens and future technology my brain shuts off for some reason.) This is a twisted tale about a character getting to know himself...more

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Mar 31, 2013 Daniel Xiao Wang rated it 4 of 5 stars

Hunter's Run, written by Gardner Dozois, George R. R. Martin, and Daniel Abraham is a science fiction novel about Romon Espejo, a rough and rugged Mexican prospector that lives the colony of Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo is one of many such colonies, scattered across the stars.

Humanity established colonies on various planets with the aid and assistance of a sentiment alien race, the Silver Enye. The Silver Enye were only one of several sentient alien species that humanity had come into contact with.

Ramon...more Hunter's Run, written by Gardner Dozois, George R. R. Martin, and Daniel Abraham is a science fiction novel about Romon Espejo, a rough and rugged Mexican prospector that lives the colony of Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo is one of many such colonies, scattered across the stars.

Humanity established colonies on various planets with the aid and assistance of a sentiment alien race, the Silver Enye. The Silver Enye were only one of several sentient alien species that humanity had come into contact with.

Ramon Espejo is drinking at a local bar, the El Rey, and gets into a bar fight with a European Ambassador. As Ramon says later in the novel, the Ambassador simply “didn't know it was knife fight.” Ramon kills him in the alley.

Desperate to escape the law Ramon decides to leave civilization behind for a little while and go prospecting. The local authorities, for their part, are desperate to catch and prosecute someone for the crime- anyone- because the Silver Enye are arriving on the planet soon and they want to maintain a semblance of law and order before the alien visit.

Ramon is certain on this run, as he is certain on every run, that this will be the “big one” the one where he finds a rich mineral load and becomes rich himself. As he is traveling he notices something peculiar in the rock formations and decides to investigate. He sets a charge, but when it goes off he finds much more than he bargained for.

For hiding on that planet is yet another sentient alien race that has been hiding from the Silver Enye for hundreds of years. By finding them Ramon threatens the safety of an entire alien race. They can't allow him to expose their secret. But discovering a new and bizarre alien race is only the tip of the iceberg for Ramon, things are about to get a lot more complicated.

Hunter's Run is a hard core science fiction story full of alien races and species, new alien words and concepts, and strange alien behaviors. It will appeal to fans of strong science fiction and those that enjoy a story full of alien milieu and new discoveries.

There are also deep philosophical currents in the story, including the reoccurring question, “under what conditions do you kill?” The rough and calloused exterior that Ramon shows throughout the novel is not the only emotion dictating what he does, and he must often remind himself that he is “Ramon Espejo, a though sonofabitch.” But, who IS Ramon Espejo really? And is this man him?(less)

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Mar 11, 2013 Melissa Prange rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: scifi, fiction

Ramon wakes up in complete darkness. He can’t move or breath. He believes he’s dead. Maybe even stuck in purgatory. Unable to figure out what is truly going on, he begins piecing together his memory of recent events to figure out how he ended up in his present state. He remembers killing a man in a bar fight and then running to the mountains. Much after that is blurry.

Things begin to become clearer when he’s brought out of his state of darkness by aliens. These aliens take him to their leader. T...more Ramon wakes up in complete darkness. He can’t move or breath. He believes he’s dead. Maybe even stuck in purgatory. Unable to figure out what is truly going on, he begins piecing together his memory of recent events to figure out how he ended up in his present state. He remembers killing a man in a bar fight and then running to the mountains. Much after that is blurry.

Things begin to become clearer when he’s brought out of his state of darkness by aliens. These aliens take him to their leader. This leader tells Ramon that they want him to hunt down a man who escaped from them. This man has information that threatens their survival, and he must be stopped before he can get back to civilization. Ramon doesn’t want to comply, but he doesn’t have much of a choice when an alien named Maneck puts a leash on him—a leash that is capable of inflicting a lot of pain if Ramon doesn’t follow orders.

Ramon, forced to work with this Maneck, seeks a way to escape. Survival is his only goal until he begins to learn more about his captors and more about himself.

Hunter’s Run by George R. R. Martin, Daniel Abraham, and Gardner Dozois is adventure science fiction at its best. The story has substance, excitement and humor. It’s approachable, lacking all the tech mumbo jumbo that turns a lot of people off the genre. Hunter’s Run is just a good book—one that I would definitely recommend to people who might not usually be interested in the genre

I was taken by surprise at several points during the story. I don’t want to ruin anything by giving these twists away, but just so you know, they are fabulous. It’s not often that I get so lost in a story that I don’t see what’s coming.

Ramon was a fascinating character. In most books, he would be the villain, but here, we get to delve into his story and see him for the complicated character that he really is. You grow to like him over the course of the story just as he grows to like himself.

There is humor in this sometimes disturbing story. Maneck weirdly reminded me a lot of Castiel from Supernatural. He was so matter of faction in his confusion. I found myself snorting on more than one occasion at his reactions to Ramon.

Overall, I really liked this book. There might have been a few times where the story lagged, but I never got so bored that I found it hard to pick the book back up again. Usually, I found myself wanting to read just one more chapter before putting it down and then, of course, wanting to read just one more chapter after that. If that isn’t a mark of a good book, I don’t know what is.
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Oct 18, 2011 Joseph Farand rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction

When humanity took to the stars they found the universe already taken by older, more advanced races. But mankind had found a niche, sending colonists to tame inhospitable dangerous planets. Sao Paulo is one such planet that has been colonized for only 40 years. Ramon Espejo is a tough, misanthropic mineral prospector hoping for that one strike that will make him rich. After he kills a foreign diplomat Ramon heads out into the unexplored wilderness to wait for the heat to die down. He accidently...more

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Jul 23, 2011 Linda G rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: no-maybe to a guy

Recommended to Linda G by: myself

This is really not my kind of book but it was interesting in some aspects. I prefer to have my main character in a book to be a woman. The man character was Ramon Espejo who lives on a colony planet of Sao Paulo. Basically, this man gets into a fight in a bar with another man and kills him. Now that he is a murderer Ramon is on the run and he takes off to the wildnerness where he discovers aliens hiding beneath this mountain. Well, the aliens capture him (well actually they take the shot off fin...more

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Jun 17, 2009 Patrick rated it 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book, and if I could would probably rate this 3 1/2, rather than just 3 stars. It is a collaborative work between three authors, and was done without any messiness I was expecting from the cooks. I enjoyed the characterization of the main character, who is an off-earther inhabiting a colony made up of mostly Mexican immigrants. This guy, Ramon, is a macho, scruffy tough minor, who after a "run-in" decides to fly his van off the grid in search of mineral deposits and a respite from...more

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May 14, 2009 Guy rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction-and-fantasy

Uninspiring shovelware. For starters the protagonist is an anti-hero, which never works particularly well for me: I'd rather be inspired by a character who is better (smarter, braver, more ethical...) than I am than examine the twisted psyche of an uneducated criminal.

Then the larger picture seems like it might be intriguing... but it is never fully revealed or explained clearly because the POV is limited to the brutish main character.

Lastly the authors make the classic mistake of thinking tha...more

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Jul 12, 2010 Jack rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Too many see the name George R.R. Martin and think, "Song of Ice and Fire!" While those books are incredible, Martin, Dozois, and Abraham all have an impressive resume with other works. This book should be considered among them. The story of Ramon Espejo, and his journey through the wilderness with Maneck and beyond is certainly a compelling one. The world of Sao Paulo and the backstory of this universe is all expertly crafted, but like other works by these authors, the character is the heart.

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Nov 06, 2011 Ryan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fic-speculative

I don't know how much Martin contributed to this book (I haven't read the other two authors), but if he ever finishes his current fantasy series, he might do well as a sci-fi writer. Far from being another space opera, Hunter's Run is written in a gritty, Hemingway-esque style that builds psychological drama on top of simple scenes involving one or two characters. It also includes some aliens who really are rather alien, and the writing's pretty effective for sci-fi.

The story would work a bit be...more

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May 14, 2010 Brian rated it 5 of 5 stars

George R.R. Martin is quite possibly one of the greatest fantasy/science fiction writers of our time, and his name is what prompted me to read this book. I found it while investigating a different title by co-author Daniel Abraham.

Summary (vague spoilers) at my blog.

To popular culture, this book doesn't have much going for it. It's science fiction, the premise is hokey, and the characters aren't sympathetic. Did I mention it's science fiction? Give it some credit, though. Where other than scifi...more George R.R. Martin is quite possibly one of the greatest fantasy/science fiction writers of our time, and his name is what prompted me to read this book. I found it while investigating a different title by co-author Daniel Abraham.

Summary (vague spoilers) at my blog.

To popular culture, this book doesn't have much going for it. It's science fiction, the premise is hokey, and the characters aren't sympathetic. Did I mention it's science fiction? Give it some credit, though. Where other than scifi can a badass face off against himself? Ramón Espejo is quite a character. He's mean, violent, sneaky, foulmouthed, and more than a little sociopathic, and the entire book is about him. The character development is slow, kicking in maybe halfway through the book, and it's not exactly subtle. What's interesting is the way that you can see the clone developing alongside the human who is unchanging.

The writing in the book is really good. There isn't unnecessary development or description; everything is to the point, moving the plot at a good pace. The writing is not artistic, but allows you to sink into the reality of Sao Paulo. The plot, while somewhat hard to swallow from outside, is really well handled. There's a small amount of set-up at the beginning of the novel, but just enough to get you into the plot and introduce the players. The only real "complaint" I might make is that the scifi elements are rather weak. There's no deep discussions of fancy technology, no battles through the depths of space, and the world is really quite like our own. However, all of this just allows the reader to focus more on the concepts being presented. Weighty matters like self and identity come up for a rare appearance in a scifi novel. The hokey elements are handled delicately enough that you don't even realize they're hokey while you're reading. By the end of the book, I found myself cheering for the unlikeable Ramón. The book is a well-contained novel that doesn't leave you hanging or really even wanting much more from the story. (less)

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May 20, 2009 Bruce rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: sf-fantasy

I have to appreciate this book for its solid accomplishments. It manages simultaneously and old school hard slog in the outback vs the aliens while at the same time being perfectly in tune with more recent(ly publishable as sci fi) notions about self identity and political correctness.

Don't go thinking this is some heavy shit-- it's just deep enough to satisfy a modern middlebrow reader. Very bad bath and beyond level sf. This too is quite an accomplishment.

Like all modern novels, it is too long...more

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Apr 21, 2013 Chris rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: sci-fi fans, western fans, tracking/hunting humans fans

Shelves: memorable-books, zany-and-imaginative

This is a really good story! I'm glad I picked it up on a whim while walking along a shelf at my local library.

A snob may decry the lack of lengthy descriptions or some of the caricatures noted in the tale, but when there's a really good story, the authors don't have to fill pages with "azure skies peppered with wispy, yet bilous, white clouds. The kind that remind us of a pure summer's day when golden retriever puppy dogs bounce in the tall grass fields towards their barefoot cherub-like child-...more

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Feb 05, 2009 Bookmarks Magazine added it

In music, supergroups of established artists are rarely greater than the sum of their parts. The same often goes for science fiction, but critics agreed that these three authors beat the trend by producing a tight, consistent novel. Whether because of Martin's decades of collaborative work, Dozois's long career as an editor, or Abraham's fresh prose style, every reviewer said the book seemed as if it were written by one person. The only complaint came from reviewers who had read an earlier, nove

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Mar 27, 2011 Rafal Jasinski rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Znakomita powieść fantastyczno - przygodowa z wyrazistym antybohaterem w roli głównej. Wartko tocząca się akcja nie przyćmiewa jednak głębszych podtekstów natury filozoficznej i psychologicznej, które wprowadzone zostają w treść sprawnie i bez zadęcia. Sama fabuła i klimat przywodzą na myśl film "Mój własny wróg" z 1985 roku, z Dennisem Quaidem w roli głównej. "Wyprawa łowcy" niesie w sobie również spory potencjał filmowy...

Ponadto książka jest zadziwiająco spójna, jak na powieść pisaną przez tr...more

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Jul 31, 2011 Tim rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another science fiction/fantasy story, written by three apparently accomplished sci fi writers, of whom I know just one, barely.

George RR Martin teams up with a Gardner Dozois, and a Daniel Abraham to work up a story about an uprooted emigrant from planet earth who lives a raw life usually on the dark side of the law on a freshly colonized planet. He does this, and that, meets some aliens, gets caught up in a larger web of conspiracy, and eventually survives it all to live on...

I don't know the...more

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Mar 18, 2012 Zedsdead rated it 3 of 5 stars

Humankind has colonized the stars under the patronage of an advanced alien race of suspect motivation. A frontier colony prospector is captured by another alien race with a secret.

Okay, but not up to Martin's usual standards. The protagonist oscillates between unlikable and despicable. There is a moderately interesting element of the story that allows him to see himself through the eyes of others and realize what a major asshat he is.

The alien world and creatures were rather monotonous and unins...more

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Jul 20, 2009 Jesse rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Fans of Sci-Fi

Shelves: sci-fi, jesse-s-all-time-favorite-authors

I picked this book up for two reasons: 1)I had been saying for months now that I needed a good hardcore Sci-Fi read (after a very long stretch of Fantasy and its various sub-genre's) and 2) because it was co-authored by George R. R. Martin (one of the few authors I can say are "My all-time favorite writers", check my shelf of that name to see who they are).

This book wasn't exactly what I was searching for when I thought of reading a hardcore Sci-Fi novel, but it ended up finding a warm comfy pla...more I picked this book up for two reasons: 1)I had been saying for months now that I needed a good hardcore Sci-Fi read (after a very long stretch of Fantasy and its various sub-genre's) and 2) because it was co-authored by George R. R. Martin (one of the few authors I can say are "My all-time favorite writers", check my shelf of that name to see who they are).

This book wasn't exactly what I was searching for when I thought of reading a hardcore Sci-Fi novel, but it ended up finding a warm comfy place inside my head all the same. Please, don't let that last remark make you think I don't consider this a Hardcore Sci-Fi novel, because it most assuredly is. There are aliens cultures/races (at least 2 different kinds scene, and a 3rd kind are described), alien worlds, flying vans, FTL travel, beam weapons, alien creatures, cloning, and a few more staples of the genre that I'm sure I'm forgetting to mention. That being said, this book has some fairly strong Noir elements to it as well. Of course I am a huge fan of crossing genres (much safer than crossing streams), so I liked the marriage of the two.

This story is entirely from the perspective of Ramon Espejo. This perspective is a nice change from what I've been reading lately, and really allows you to get to know and sympathize with Ramon. From the outside he's a hard character to sympathise with, being a boastful, ill tempered, semi-bumb fueled by his dislike for the rest of humanity and his own sense of machismo. Yet of course you come to find out that much of this is a defense mechanism for him, and its hard to entirely hate him once you see the humanity inside of him.

Of course you are treated to these insights in to Ramon's character while on the run from alien enemies through (a different) alien wilderness. It really comes down to being a human(ity) driven alien Sci-Fi story, about how different and the same things are throughout the galaxy. And it has two of the more original seeming alien races I've ever encountered in Sci-fi.

One note before I end this review. I'm a little annoyed that the other two authors of this book don't get credited as authors on Goodreads.com. Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham, for all I know about the process involved in the making of this book, did just as much writing as George R.R. Martin. Yet they get no mention here, and that is sad. Hopefully a complaint to Goodreads.com will fix it.(less)

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Jan 25, 2011 Douglas rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-i-borrowed, strangers-in-a-strange-book-club

I really enjoyed this book except for the vulgar language, I generally think of curse words as the sign of a weak writer, but in this case I know for a fact that Dozois and Martin, at least, are not weak writers. I am certain that they would explain as a character trait of Ramon, and I understand that having known people who do speak that way. Still, it was off-putting while reading and is what kept this book from being a five.

What I did enjoy was exploring the question of what it means to be hu...more

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Aug 23, 2011 Alex Sheldon Savva rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: most-memorable, science-fiction

A character study of first encounter between human and alien - a blend of sci-fi and psychological drama, a great plot and overall great story that left me thinking of it long afterwards.
It now sits among my books as one of the most interesting tales with a sci-fi element.
I noticed most reviewers on here openly disliked the main protagonist, and true enough, he is portrayed as quite the anti-hero, an unpleasant character and someone you'd rather never hang out with. And all the better for it, fo...more

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Mar 15, 2010 Russ rated it 3 of 5 stars

I picked up this book because of my enjoyment of both George RR Martin's and Daniel Abraham's other books. This was not a disappointment. The three authors together create a vivid world with a good back story. The characters are well developed and sympathetic. There are chase scenes, fight scenes, and other drama with more than enough twists mixed in. It was a very, very good book, though it did seem like something was missing. This might have been a little too much story for the size of the boo...more

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Jun 04, 2012 Reese Copeland rated it 4 of 5 stars

The book started out pretty good. It gave you a real baseline for what the character was all about. You could definitly see the development of the character, with a determined streak not to change. THe story dragged at times, seemingly going over details until you couldn't stand it anymore. However, the character of Manek did help to keep the story going, and how the main character kept going back to the lessons learned from him. It wasn't a bad read, just seemed like it dragged at some times mo...more

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Mar 26, 2012 Fiona Hurley rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction, read-in-2012

Now, this was a nice surprise! I picked this one off my husband's bookshelf because I had a long bus journey ahead, so no expectations. But the story sucked me into its world and kept me gripped until the end.
As other reviewers have mentioned, Ramon is not an immediately sympathetic protaganist. He's violent, foul-mouthed, self-centered, and misanthropic. Then again, his world seems to be composed of people running away from something and consoling themselves with alcohol and fighting, like a ga...more

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Sep 19, 2011 Kristin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: e-book, scifi-bkgrp-selection, science-fiction

As the description to the books states, a man’s worst enemy can be himself. In Hunter’s Run, this is doubly so when Ramon discovers he was made from the finger of his Twin, who is frantically trying to return to civilization after a prospecting run gone bad.

What I found fascinating about this book was the story is told from copy-Ramon’s point of view, not the original. The reader gets to watch as copy-Ramon struggles with identity and survival. Who should live and who should die or should both o...more

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Mar 13, 2013 David rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I read this because George R.R. Martin was one of the writers. It was fun, and I enjoyed it, but it wasn't as good as a Song of Ice and Fire.

It was a sci-fi run-from-the-powers-that-be story for the most part, but there were interesting twists that made it a philosophical character study as well.

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The protagonist is a clone-ish creation of an alien race who has been created to hunt down his "original" self. Of course, he thinks he is the original, and doesn't figure it out until he finds...more

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Aug 29, 2008 Josh rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: fans of sci-fi

Shelves: sci-fi

This is another book that I bought based solely on who wrote it. I love Martin and Abraham is also a great writer, though I had never heard of Dozois prior to this. I didn't know what I would think, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. Hunter's Run has action, drama, humor and bizarre aliens; just about all you could ask for in a great sci-fi book. Is it a masterpiece? I still can't quite decide...

My favorite part of this book is what most reviewers seem to dislike the most: the main character. Ramon Es...more This is another book that I bought based solely on who wrote it. I love Martin and Abraham is also a great writer, though I had never heard of Dozois prior to this. I didn't know what I would think, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. Hunter's Run has action, drama, humor and bizarre aliens; just about all you could ask for in a great sci-fi book. Is it a masterpiece? I still can't quite decide...

My favorite part of this book is what most reviewers seem to dislike the most: the main character. Ramon Espejo is a pretty despicable human being. He's a murderer and a criminal, but I'll be damned if he doesn't provide an entertaining point of view. Maybe I've gotten to the point where I've read too much typical fiction with do-gooder protagonists that an a**hole is just what I needed. And even if he is an a**hole, he is funny and has some great dialogue, especially with his travelling companion/captor (who for the sake of not spoiling, I will not reveal here.) And as the story progresses, even though he is still sort of despicable, he does have an epiphany of sorts that changes him as a person. On the basis of how he thought and how he acted, his decisions were believable and I thought his progression as a character was really well done.

The actual story, which I can't speak much on because I'd give it away, is also well done. It is a nice tight plot that flows well from start to finish. There is some good action and some crazy situations, but given the circumstances, there is nothing unbelievable. By the end of Hunter's Run, I was left a little disappointed that it had ended but in no way dissatisfied with the ending. There are no loose ends and it is its own complete story.

This really teeters on the edge between a 4 star and a 5 star book. I'd have to say I'll give it 4.5 stars and curse goodreads for not having a more intricate rating system. Pretty much the only reason I gave it 4 and not 5 is that considering the prose of Martin and Abraham, the writing could have been better. Don't get me wrong, the writing isn't bad, it's just not on par with Song of Ice and Fire or Abraham's very eloquent style in the Long Price Quartet. Toward the beginning of the story, the writing seemed a little lazy and hurried, like there were more details that could have been included. But as the story progressed and the main character began to develop, the writing almost seemed to get better, so perhaps all of this was intended. The same can almost be said about the story itself. It's rare that the reader actually wants more time to be spent in the development of the characters and setting before the story really gets started, but I felt at the beginning it moved a little too quickly. Once the story gets moving however, I forgot all about that. I think the only other thing that keeps it out of 5 star territory is that it's not quite as grand nor the scope quite as great as some of the books that I consider 5 star.

I'd really be interested to know how three authors actually piece together a book like this, what the writing process is. (Okay, so let's take a drunken a-hole down on his luck, a backwater prospecting planet, and some really bizarre aliens... go!) In any case, the outcome is great. Despite my somewhat indecisive misgivings, I'd recommend this book to any sci-fi fan.(less)

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Jul 18, 2012 Myles rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book got off to such a slow start that only the reputations of the authors kept me from walking away from it. I'm glad I stuck around for the protagonist's first departure from Diegotown, though; the story quickly evolved into a clever, engaging, sometimes-surprising journey that left me staying up well past bedtime -- and NOT feeling regretful about it as I trudged bleary-eyed to work the next morning.

I don't read this kind of science fiction much, so this may not be as creative an approac...more

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Jul 09, 2011 Claudia Mosey rated it 3 of 5 stars

Not my kind of story,but I ended up with it in my pile of library books.It was pretty good.I could see a few of my male friends reading/enjoying it.Sci-fict. alot of gritty images,aliens living in the middle of our earth,men on the run,trying to keep out of the clutches of these aliens,all in all ,kept me entertained.3 writers involved,you would think too many cooks spoil the broth,but it turned out to be a good read. Cannot say I will search for any other books like this,but no regrets.

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Sep 05, 2011 Algernon rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

[7/10] Solid adventure in the beginning with some good riffs later in the story on the themes of identity, responsibility for your own actions and morality. A little bland in style for the first chapters, but short enough and interesting enough in the later developments. The afterword and the end interviews do a good job of explaining why it needed 3 authors and 30 years to come to print.
It could be said to share some elements with Enemy Mine and with Left Hand of Darkness

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Jul 13, 2011 Tyrone Tan rated it 2 of 5 stars

It's a shame that I think a book written in part by one of my favourite authors, George R. R. Martin, would be flawed and rather flimsy. Given that this book was actually written as a novella and then expanded in collaboration with two other authors though, one has to wonder if the original idea was lost somewhere along the way. It does feel like that though as this book felt more like it was about transporting the reader into a rainforest-like trek set in a colony world, than it was for the adv...more

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Aug 09, 2011 Elizabeth Hunter rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: sf

An interesting character-study set in a convincing world of oppression, examining on a manageable scale questions of identity--both individual and as a species--and how our errors create us. The main character is hardly a likeable one, but he is, as he frequently remarks, one tough sonofabitch, and as his story and circumstances unfold, he can even be sympathetic. The adventure is inventive and the questions raised leave the reader with food for thought.

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About George R.R. Martin

George R. R. Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten.

Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies,...more George R. R. Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten.

Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: "The Hero," sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Other sales followed.

In 1970 Martin received a B.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, graduating summa cum laude. He went on to complete a M.S. in Journalism in 1971, also from Northwestern.

As a conscientious objector, Martin did alternative service 1972-1974 with VISTA, attached to Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation. He also directed chess tournaments for the Continental Chess Association from 1973-1976, and was a Journalism instructor at Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa, from 1976-1978. He wrote part-time throughout the 1970s while working as a VISTA Volunteer, chess director, and teacher.

In 1975 he married Gale Burnick. They divorced in 1979, with no children. Martin became a full-time writer in 1979. He was writer-in-residence at Clarke College from 1978-79.

Moving on to Hollywood, Martin signed on as a story editor for Twilight Zone at CBS Television in 1986. In 1987 Martin became an Executive Story Consultant for Beauty and the Beast at CBS. In 1988 he became a Producer for Beauty and the Beast, then in 1989 moved up to Co-Supervising Producer. He was Executive Producer for Doorways, a pilot which he wrote for Columbia Pictures Television, which was filmed during 1992-93.

Martin's present home is Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (he was South-Central Regional Director 1977-1979, and Vice President 1996-1998), and of Writers' Guild of America, West.

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