Saturn's Children
by Charles Stross
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recommends it for: Experienced readers and lovers of science fiction
Read in August, 2008
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Read in September, 2008
I thought this was going to be a wonderful book when I started it. Stross has quite an imagination for worlds unlike ours. He has created a world where humans are extinct and robots have colonized the galaxy because they don't have human biological restrictions. He has some really interesting ideas such interplanetary travel that starts with a giant ferris wheel that takes your pod into orbit where you're attached to something kind of like a ski lift that takes you to the next planet. He also ha...more
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Read in July, 2008
OK, this is my buffer book between Survivor and Rant, which are both nihilist fiction from Chuck Palanhiuk.
It appears to be the tale of one of Earth's last sex-bots named Freya. The story takes place long after the extinction of man. Freya, an out-moded model of robot with no purpose now that mankind has perished, is contemplating suicide when she comes across a strange employment offer from Jeeves Corporation. The job seems simple, but definitely dangerous an illicit: take a hard shelled pi...more
It appears to be the tale of one of Earth's last sex-bots named Freya. The story takes place long after the extinction of man. Freya, an out-moded model of robot with no purpose now that mankind has perished, is contemplating suicide when she comes across a strange employment offer from Jeeves Corporation. The job seems simple, but definitely dangerous an illicit: take a hard shelled pi...more
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This is the second Stross book I've read this year, having read Halting State a few months back, and in terms of genre it's about as close to traditional space opera as Stross gets - there's no technological singularity as in Singularity Sky or Accelerando, there's just robots and spaceships.
It reminds me very much of Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, in that the protagonist travels throughout a futuristic solar system where the whole solar system is populated (the difference being ther...more
It reminds me very much of Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, in that the protagonist travels throughout a futuristic solar system where the whole solar system is populated (the difference being ther...more
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Read in August, 2008
I realized after giving up on this that I've read quite a few of Charles Stross's books but I haven't really loved any of them.
So why do I keep reading them? I think it's because they always sound really interesting, but the execution never quite lives up to the promise. I really like his characters, but there's just always too much STUFF in the way of the story!
In this one, even after I stopped reading I still kept thinking about the main character and sort of wondering what was ha...more
So why do I keep reading them? I think it's because they always sound really interesting, but the execution never quite lives up to the promise. I really like his characters, but there's just always too much STUFF in the way of the story!
In this one, even after I stopped reading I still kept thinking about the main character and sort of wondering what was ha...more
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Read in September, 2008
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Let me start off by saying that I did NOT buy this book based on the cover. I hate the cover. It's an embarrassing cover and so much so that my wife hasn't seen it. She of course knows that I am reading the book. She just hasn't (and won't) see the cover. I almost didn't buy the book (even though I was jacked about reading it) because of the US market cheap-sex-sleazy-sex-doll-looking-cover. One a scale of 1-5, I give this cover negative numbers.
This is the cover I was expecting, http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
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This is the cover I was expecting, http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
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Read in August, 2008
Sometimes it's the science that keeps me from enjoying science fiction. And that was the case here. I didn't get off on the brainy fake science at all. To paraphrase the venerable Granita Ford, she of the bishojo aristocracy, "Bullshit like that makes the ship fly no faster." By the time I was half way through the book I was only reading it to finish it.
One last thing. I'm always tickled when I read sex in science fiction novels. Mostly because it's so bad. Here's a (funny?) sample...more
One last thing. I'm always tickled when I read sex in science fiction novels. Mostly because it's so bad. Here's a (funny?) sample...more
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Read in July, 2008
This book has a great premise and it starts funny enough, but then it bogs down in spy/chase stuff instead of continuing in the pastiche mode of The Trunk and Disorderly story that I loved a lot.
After reading so many excellent books recently, I just could not take this sub-mediocre book so I fast read through it.
Has enough good stuff not to be a complete waste of time, but I expected much better.
Highly disappointing
After reading so many excellent books recently, I just could not take this sub-mediocre book so I fast read through it.
Has enough good stuff not to be a complete waste of time, but I expected much better.
Highly disappointing
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Charles Stross is delightfully unpredictable. This is a space opera about what the robots do after the humans go and become extinct, told from the viewpoint of a Pleasure Bot.
Stross has a good bit on his blog talking about the US Cover art, and comparing it to the UK cover. In short: US publishers apparently don't read past the first few pages, and think that femmbots are hot.
Stross has a good bit on his blog talking about the US Cover art, and comparing it to the UK cover. In short: US publishers apparently don't read past the first few pages, and think that femmbots are hot.
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Read in July, 2008
A Stross Space Opera? Indeed it is. I liked this one, but it's not my favorite. The story seemed to plateau for a while, and then the end was haltingly short. Still worth a read, though, especially if you're a fan of Halting State or Accelerando.
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Read in August, 2008
A good read. Pros: A strong narrative voice reminiscent of Heinlein, a fully imagined (if horrifying) future society, and some sly wit. It does get a bit confusing towards the end.
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it's sci-fi space opera...what more need I say?
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