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Be My Enemy (Everness #2)
by
Ian McDonald
Everett Singh has escaped with the Infundibulum from the clutches of Charlotte Villiers and the Order, but at a terrible price. His father is missing, banished to one of the billions of parallel universes of the Panoply of All World, and Everett and the crew of the airship Everness have taken a wild, random Heisenberg Jump to a random parallel plane. Everett is smart and r...more
Hardcover, 280 pages
Published
September 4th 2012
by Pyr
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Full review at the Intergalactic Academy.
I had mixed feelings about Planesrunner, the very first novel in Ian McDonald’s very first series for adolescent readers. While on paper, it has many admirable qualities–qualities often sought in YA novels, from a diverse hero, to a well-developed SFnal premise–I wasn’t quite convinced of the appropriateness of the book for the intended audience. That remains the case with Be My Enemy, the oddly titled sequel.
What worked well in the first book continues t...more
I had mixed feelings about Planesrunner, the very first novel in Ian McDonald’s very first series for adolescent readers. While on paper, it has many admirable qualities–qualities often sought in YA novels, from a diverse hero, to a well-developed SFnal premise–I wasn’t quite convinced of the appropriateness of the book for the intended audience. That remains the case with Be My Enemy, the oddly titled sequel.
What worked well in the first book continues t...more
Originally Reviewed At: Mother/Gamer/Writer
Rating: 5 out of 5 Controllers
Review Source: Publisher
Reviewer: AimeeKay
I have been waiting forever to read Be My Enemy, the sequel to Planesrunner by Ian McDonald! (Okay it’s been less than a year…but still!) So I was uber-excited to see this one in my box of goodies from D. Luckily I wasn’t disappointed and enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed the first book.
Be My Enemy picks up where Planesrunner ended. Dr. Singh is still missing and Everett is stuck on a...more
Rating: 5 out of 5 Controllers
Review Source: Publisher
Reviewer: AimeeKay
I have been waiting forever to read Be My Enemy, the sequel to Planesrunner by Ian McDonald! (Okay it’s been less than a year…but still!) So I was uber-excited to see this one in my box of goodies from D. Luckily I wasn’t disappointed and enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed the first book.
Be My Enemy picks up where Planesrunner ended. Dr. Singh is still missing and Everett is stuck on a...more
I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
The second installation of the Everness series begins with Everett getting hit by a car and waking up on the moon. It just gets crazier from there. The Everness crew continues to world-jump with Everett.
What's the worst thing you could encounter when world-jumping? A frozen earth? Villians? War Machines? Nanotechnology run wild? Maybe...or it could be yourself.
Everett and Sen grow closer, but he still isn't sure he will eve...more
The second installation of the Everness series begins with Everett getting hit by a car and waking up on the moon. It just gets crazier from there. The Everness crew continues to world-jump with Everett.
What's the worst thing you could encounter when world-jumping? A frozen earth? Villians? War Machines? Nanotechnology run wild? Maybe...or it could be yourself.
Everett and Sen grow closer, but he still isn't sure he will eve...more
Be My Enemy is the second book in the Everness series, but stands very solidly as a story on its own. I was afraid I had missed vital information by starting with the second book (as I seem to be doing a lot lately), but the author does an excellent job of introducing the characters and saying what’s going on without leaving the reader to wonder what he’s missed.
What attracted me to this book, and what I knew would also attract my children who are its intended audience (at 13 and 15), were the r...more
What attracted me to this book, and what I knew would also attract my children who are its intended audience (at 13 and 15), were the r...more
...Some of the novelty of McDonald's concepts has worn of in this book of course, but all things considered Be My Enemy is a very strong sequel to Planesrunner. McDonald doesn't feel the need to hold the reader's hand in his adult fiction and he certainly doesn't do so here. In my opinion that is something books for teens could use more of. There is a respect of the reader's intelligence in these novels that makes them attractive for geeks of all ages. I hope to see a new McDonald for adult audi...more
This is another excellent entry in the Planesrunner/Everness series by Ian McDonald. Happily, the cover of this book is not nearly as embarrassing as the cover for the first one. Progress!
***Note, the next paragraph contains spoilers for Planesrunner.***
In this installment, Everett and the crew of the Everness are continuing his search for Everett's father who, in Planesrunner, was forcibly jumped to a parallel world. We get to visit three more parallel worlds and meet Everett M., our hero's "a...more
***Note, the next paragraph contains spoilers for Planesrunner.***
In this installment, Everett and the crew of the Everness are continuing his search for Everett's father who, in Planesrunner, was forcibly jumped to a parallel world. We get to visit three more parallel worlds and meet Everett M., our hero's "a...more
For a book about incredibly, fantastically advanced alternate universes and jailbroken iPads that can navigate between any, undocumented parallel universe, this book was really boring. I think, fundamentally, my problem is I am more interested in an alternate world with different theoretical software & circuitry than hardware history--so what if Babbage builds his engine or not, what happens if we have something other than Boolean logic guarding our logic gates? How does that effect computat...more
Be My Enemy is the sequel to last year’s Planesrunner, the book that launched Ian McDonald’s first ever YA series in spectacular fashion. I dearly love both of these novels and don’t want to ruin your enjoyment of them in any way, so if you haven’t read Planesrunner yet, stop reading this now and instead check out my review of that first novel, because there will be some spoilers for the first book below the cut. In other words: if you’re new to the Everness series, stop reading here until you’v...more
There will be spoilers for the first book in the series, Planesrunner (review).
We were left with quite a cliffhanger at the end of Planesrunner; Everett’s dad is zapped to a random universe and Everett and the airship team escapes the bad guys by zapping themselves to another random universe. It turns out to be a frozen version of our world. Everett has to figure out a way back using his tablet installed with the Infundibilum and the jump gun, rescue his father and dodge his enemy Charlotte Vill...more
We were left with quite a cliffhanger at the end of Planesrunner; Everett’s dad is zapped to a random universe and Everett and the airship team escapes the bad guys by zapping themselves to another random universe. It turns out to be a frozen version of our world. Everett has to figure out a way back using his tablet installed with the Infundibilum and the jump gun, rescue his father and dodge his enemy Charlotte Vill...more
Dec 20, 2012
Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides
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2 of 5 stars
Shelves:
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science-fiction
2.5. Not quite eight deadly words territory, but close. I enjoyed the first book in this setting, Planesrunner, because it introduced the settings so brilliantly. I did care about the characters. Here, it just fell a bit flat somehow. Lots of dark things happen. There are very few up moments. It was just hard to engage somehow. I think Phoebe North touches on some of the reasons why in her review.
Everything you want in a parrellel universe spanning, steampunk ship flying, nanotech monster fighting, cyborg duplicate facing ya science fiction novel.
Wow.
What a tremendous follow up to Planesrunner. McDonald once again blows me away. In this installment Everett and the crew of the Everness travel to new and dangerous worlds in search of his father, but The Order isn't giving up without a fight. They have a nasty surprise in store for Everett.
What a tremendous follow up to Planesrunner. McDonald once again blows me away. In this installment Everett and the crew of the Everness travel to new and dangerous worlds in search of his father, but The Order isn't giving up without a fight. They have a nasty surprise in store for Everett.
Book 2 of a YA series built around alternate realities. Cool characters and cool ideas (and Thieve's Cant) but absolutely no flow. Way harder to read than it should have been - but at least it wasn't one of those YA's where it was written to simply.
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Ian Neil McDonald (1960-) is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies.
McDonald was born in 1960, in Manchester, to a Scottish father and Irish mother, but moved to Belfast when he was five, and has lived there ever since. He therefore lived throu...more
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McDonald was born in 1960, in Manchester, to a Scottish father and Irish mother, but moved to Belfast when he was five, and has lived there ever since. He therefore lived throu...more
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