false 2278387 8 Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct—leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the contents of the package. 2284499 book 1 7 2008 Saturn's Children total:343|5:40|4:113|3:135|2:41|1:14| 343 1153 597 95 3 4 false true Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 28 15:42:13 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 23 14:44:50 -0800 2008 1 The Family Trade, but I've enjoyed his space operas, including this one.

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This book was good but I admit that I was expecting more and it wasn't nearly as clever as I think it was suppose to be. I will continue...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 27 14:21:19 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 07 21:11:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 02:05:37 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 02:12:51 -0700 2008
I have a sort of proprietary narcissistic interest in stross, given that I found out about him early in his career, bought Toast when it was his only published book. Or maybe it's just that I like his writing.

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Stross starts out by quoting Newton "standing on the shoulders of giants..." and then referencing Heinlein and Asimov. I remember liking Heinlein's Friday a great deal, but then that was 20 years ago when I was a Teenager...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:37:46 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:04:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jan 07 19:29:48 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 19:32:46 -0800 2009 Heinlein and Asimov space operas. I can see it -- I read a lot of Heinlein as a teen, including some stuff that my parents probably didn't know about. It is a little less problematic* than some of the old Heinlein, though, despite the fo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 19:28:01 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 19:34:06 -0700 2009 Freya is a diffic...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 10:04:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 10:04:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 08:25:14 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 08:27:21 -0700 2009 Accelerando and Halting State – The story was so vague and the prose contained so much techno-babble and trendy language that I could get past the first 10...more...]]> 3 5 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 16:38:21 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 03:06:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:59:45 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:59:45 -0800 2009 Charles Stross is a unique voice among today's wave of "New British SF" writers, but he also knows his history. Saturn's Children is dedicated to old lions Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, and the ghosts of both (especially Heinlein) can be felt in the latest effort. Reviews of the novel ...

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In spite of all of that (or, in the case of Varley, maybe ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 19:40:11 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 20:36:19 -0800 2009 1 Saturn's Children answers the question of what happens to humanity's children - robotic servants - when humanity no longer exists? The story focuses on Freya, a pleasure bot who's become o...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 16:41:27 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 16:59:17 -0700 2009
1) He plays with all kinds of fascinating concepts. His books are like the FAO Schwartz of ideas.
2) He uses the SF genre to play with storytelling techniques.

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