false 101864 9 Charles Stross's "visionary" (Library Journal) debut novel Singularity Sky was hailed as "a carnival of ideas" (Michael Swanwick) and sealed his reputation as the writer who "owns the cutting edge of science fiction" (James Patrick Kelly). Now he moves beyond that horizon with his stunning sequel, <i>Iron Sunrise</i>. <br><br> When the planet of Moscow was annihilated, its few survivors launched a counter-attack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn't responsible, and as the deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was. <br><br> And the one person who knows is a disaffected teenager who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist. But Wednesday has no idea what she knows... 1219293 2004 Iron Sunrise total:496|5:106|4:228|3:130|2:30|1:2| 496 1894 681 46 2 1 false false Fri May 23 14:29:35 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 14:29:35 -0700 2008
There were too many character threads, and too many of the characters began to talk like one another as the book progressed. Not to mention Stross's linguistic tics and frequent cliches w...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 09:34:26 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 22:54:27 -0800 2009 Crépuscule d'acier une excellente impression et c'est auréolé de ce premier tome fabuleux que j'avais choisi d'entamer le second tome des aventures de Rachel Mansour et Martin ... j'ai oublié son nom ... dans l'univers de l'Eschaton.
Dans cette histoire, au lieu d'une civi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 13 14:42:51 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:42:51 -0700 2009 Iron Sunrise, which garnered the best novel nomination for the 2005 Hugo Award...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 12:45:49 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 16:10:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 22:05:46 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 21:42:20 -0700 2008
Without looking into his writing notes, this book is what I assume Stross came up with after thinking abou...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 15 07:27:16 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 27 14:19:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 13:25:36 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 18:02:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 09:59:11 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:17:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 16:58:08 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 19:21:19 -0800 2009
I rarely dish out five stars, but this author's writing is a near-perfect match for my tastes. The pseudo science sparkles, the characters are perfectly larger-than-life space-operatic, the pacing and story are good. Stomach churning graphic violence and casually explicit sex put in ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 16:46:38 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 09:33:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 30 17:22:05 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 17:25:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 19:28:54 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 19:32:32 -0700 2009
The empire is held together by quantum-entanglement faster-than-light communication channels, which is both plausible and a device I haven't seen before.

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Extremely entertaining space opera.

I'm not feeling like going in to much detail at the moment.

But if you enjoy Charles Stross, this was definitely written by him, so you might like it.]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 08:01:45 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 22:28:08 -0800 2009 1 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Apr 26 15:55:37 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 15:58:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Oct 25 00:22:04 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 00:42:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 17 09:41:31 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 22:05:53 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 09:41:31 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 06:07:38 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 05:17:48 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Sep 07 04:44:20 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 04:44:24 -0700 2009 http://bibliotheca.skynetblogs.be/post/7...]]>