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A Grey Moon Over China
Army engineer Eduardo Torres is caught up in the world’s raging oil wars when he stumbles onto the plans for a quantum-energy battery. This remarkable device could slow civilization’s inevitable descent into environmental disaster, but Torres has other plans. Forming a private army, he uses the device to revive an abandoned space colonization effort in an ambitious ca
...moreMass Market Paperback, 512 pages
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March 30th 2010
(first published October 30th 2006)
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This is the way the world ends.
There’re bad end-of-world books (*cough*The Stand*cough*), and there’re good ones. And then there’s A Grey Moon over China. If you want a plausible description of the geopolitical machinations if we were ever to discover an inexhaustible source of energy and a way to the nearest habitable planet, this book is it.
It takes very seriously the simple geopolitical truth that countries and leaders are not evil, are not good. They are often simpl...more
There’re bad end-of-world books (*cough*The Stand*cough*), and there’re good ones. And then there’s A Grey Moon over China. If you want a plausible description of the geopolitical machinations if we were ever to discover an inexhaustible source of energy and a way to the nearest habitable planet, this book is it.
It takes very seriously the simple geopolitical truth that countries and leaders are not evil, are not good. They are often simpl...more
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When I read A Grey Moon Over China I believed it had the potential to become the most important and/or influential sci-fi book in a generation. I know our society is littered with the trash of ubiquitous hyperbole but I wasn't trying to exaggerage; I really believed this book had that kind of potential. It's the sort of book that can leave the reader a little jacked up for months afterward, and indeed it took me several months to put into words my thoughts and feelings on what I found to be a ...more
A Grey Moon Over China is near future sci-fi epic with a surprisingly intimate touch that constantly wars with broader scope. It is a struggle that at times makes for an engrossing read and at other times makes for a difficult read. In the near future of this novel Earth is shattered by wars and environment ruin. While people go on about their daily lives the endless war and violence takes its toll. One soldier, Edward Torres, tired of war and violence and look for a peaceful life and quiet plac...more
I realize I have a problem with a lot of modern science fiction, which may be why I don’t read a whole lot of it. So many authors through you into this world they’ve created, no explanation, no description of the technology they’ve invented or the acronyms characters use. Would it hurt them to have a couple paragraphs of explication? Take this novel. It’s some time in the future, there’s a war going on, not sure between who or over what, but it seems to be about oil. All kinds of technology...more
"A Grey Moon Over China" is a solid and well-executed debut novel. Main character and narrator Ed Torres is a soldier in the ongoing oil and energy wars of the early 21st century on Earth. During an amazing military maneuver (which you have to read to believe), he accidentally gets access to a scientific secret that can solve all of the planet's energy problems, but rather than share it with the world, he uses it to fund and launch a space exploration and colonization effort.
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It's a shame this book did not get more buzz. It will, I believe, become a classic of science fiction in the future. It's almost an old-school SF tale of epic wars and interstellar colonization and space battles and a frightening inhuman adversary, but the grim near-future setting resonates with the anxieties we feel today. Oil wars and environmental catastrophes are what drive the main characters to flee Earth, but they bring all of Earth's troubles with them, and find space is no more hospitab...more
This should've been a better book than it was. The the setting, a bleak vision of the future, was consistent and interesting, and the characters were mostly well-developed. The plot, on the other hand, needed serious work. A lot of the plot developments were jarring and unbelievable, and the central conceit of the book's first third was so unrealistic as to be utterly laughable. I'd read Day's next book, but I wouldn't recommend this one to anybody.
The action in this book was pretty much non-existent. The pace was incredibly slow. It skipped huge periods of time with barely a mention of their passing. Not the worst book I've read this year, but I certainly didn't like it.
The most sobering sci-fi I've read in a long time. Bleak, cold, and mean. Made New Caprica seem like Cancun. I cannot wait for Day's next novel.
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I've read this book twice now and loved it even more the second time through. For now, I'll leave my review of my first reading intact on the other hardcover edition. I'm thinking of writing another review soon to put here. Is it bad to have two reviews floating around? It's just that everything I wrote in the prior review is still true as far as it goes, but my experience reading the book the second time is sufficiently different to warrant a new perspective.
This is the best science fiction book I've read in a long time. Day starts right in at the action and brings you in with it. There is everything you want in sci-fi--space, drones, war, girls in cat suits, allegorical comments on society and an impossible twist at the end that makes you desperate to talk to someone about. So someone read this and we'll talk.
INCREDIBLY technical, which is not something i always look for, but given the author's background i thought it was a real asset.
I was most impressed with how far into the future the scope of the story moved. An incredibly realistic (however distant) vision of the future.
I was most impressed with how far into the future the scope of the story moved. An incredibly realistic (however distant) vision of the future.
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Thomas A. Day was born in Bremen, Germany and raised on diplomatic posts around the world, including in Berlin, Chile, and the Middle East. Educated in the sciences, technology and business, he has worked as a senior manager in the aerospace industry, a now-and-again nighttime cargo pilot, and a freelance software developer in the artificial intelligence field. He currently works as a forensic sof...more
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