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Duallists
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ON THE MOON, EVERYONE HAS A DARK SIDE.
One hundred years in the future, enormous mining vessels scour the surface of the Moon, prospecting for valuable metals and minerals. Trapped onboard for months at a time, the crew use drugs, virtual environments, gambling and pitfights to make life bearable.
Joel Miller doesn’t need any of those things. He has a new reason to live.
An e ...more
One hundred years in the future, enormous mining vessels scour the surface of the Moon, prospecting for valuable metals and minerals. Trapped onboard for months at a time, the crew use drugs, virtual environments, gambling and pitfights to make life bearable.
Joel Miller doesn’t need any of those things. He has a new reason to live.
An e ...more
ebook, 110 pages
Published
August 12th 2013
by David Wailing
(first published October 5th 2012)
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This is an early work of David Wailing's which is only available (free) for the two weeks of the Edinburgh eBook festival. He doesn't intend to make it available through the usual outlets. The book is fairly hardcore science fiction and is set in a lunar mining colony. Joel and Reese have an intense hatred of one another and would happily battle to the death.
I found all the testosterone fueled fighting a bit teenage-rivalry for my taste but I was fascinated by the imagined technology in the luna ...more
I found all the testosterone fueled fighting a bit teenage-rivalry for my taste but I was fascinated by the imagined technology in the luna ...more
Duallists: by David Wailing.
As with all the books that I’ve read by this author, there is a great depth of thought into the setting of the novel and the characters within. Like a true artist, he has superbly set the scene on this sci-fi tale. Set in a mining ship on the moon, the backdrop to this tale is well thought out and believable.
Our would be hero is clearly showing the mental strain of his tour in space, having already left Earth with a plentiful amount of mental baggage, as his tour com ...more
As with all the books that I’ve read by this author, there is a great depth of thought into the setting of the novel and the characters within. Like a true artist, he has superbly set the scene on this sci-fi tale. Set in a mining ship on the moon, the backdrop to this tale is well thought out and believable.
Our would be hero is clearly showing the mental strain of his tour in space, having already left Earth with a plentiful amount of mental baggage, as his tour com ...more
This is David Wailing’s off-earth future imaginings. Joel Miller takes an immediate and intense dislike to Reese when he arrives on the Moonbug for mining Mars. All he thinks about is getting even and trying to kill him. The feeling is mutual.
As with the author’s Auto series, you get thrown into the future and it is believable. You can feel the claustrophobia of being on a spaceship for years. The tone is adult with a bit of graphic violence.
This was a tidy read. I must admit I skimmed through ...more
As with the author’s Auto series, you get thrown into the future and it is believable. You can feel the claustrophobia of being on a spaceship for years. The tone is adult with a bit of graphic violence.
This was a tidy read. I must admit I skimmed through ...more
Excellent futuristic novella set on a ship that's mining the moon. As usual with Wailing's work, you think you know what's going on, but you don't. Not really. He plays nicely with the theme of identity here--who is Joel, in his heart of hearts? By the end, you're still not entirely sure--and neither is Joel.
Wailing also blurs the lines between "good" and "bad" in unexpected ways. Joel had my sympathy throughout the story, but did I even like him? That's hard to say. However, his story was comp ...more
Wailing also blurs the lines between "good" and "bad" in unexpected ways. Joel had my sympathy throughout the story, but did I even like him? That's hard to say. However, his story was comp ...more
I've read and enjoyed many of the author's other book (especially the Auto series) but for some reason this one has languished on my TBR list for a long time. I've no idea why and it was a foolish move on my part because this is an excellent read. It's a sci-fi tale of man working as part of a mining operation on the Moon. The story centres around an obsession he has in out-doing one of his co-workers. In fact it's got so out of hand that there is a vendetta between the two men.
For me good sci-f ...more
For me good sci-f ...more
Quite a Rush
Stark, violent, raw and savage, this is the story of a man in a vendetta against another worker, which escalates until either one or both may be killed. BUT, not everything is what it seems, as these two trade dirty deeds and blows within the insular moon mining colony. A fast paced, first person POV story that packs a punch. Recommended!
Stark, violent, raw and savage, this is the story of a man in a vendetta against another worker, which escalates until either one or both may be killed. BUT, not everything is what it seems, as these two trade dirty deeds and blows within the insular moon mining colony. A fast paced, first person POV story that packs a punch. Recommended!
Not what I was thinking about at all .
It was a good buildup , lots of interaction background , I thought that I had the background story nailed , but I was wrong and and that I was reasonably pleased, good story
It was a good buildup , lots of interaction background , I thought that I had the background story nailed , but I was wrong and and that I was reasonably pleased, good story
Initially hard to follow, but..
The beginning about the two competing projects left me confused for a bit. Be patient it's a pretty entertaining read.
The beginning about the two competing projects left me confused for a bit. Be patient it's a pretty entertaining read.
Intriguing
Really liked the concept and it has a surprising turn.......no spoliers. A really good read, and well worth the time.
Really liked the concept and it has a surprising turn.......no spoliers. A really good read, and well worth the time.
I found it hard to rate this book. There are parts i did not like but overall it is an excellent read. Set in a future "big brother" type society a feud emerges between Reese and Joel both willing to go as far as necessary and both to some extent worked like puppets by those higher in the society.
An absolute belter of a Science Fiction story from David Wailing. Set on a mining colony on the moon, David's writing and imagination make it believable that these situations may exist. Characters are beautifully devised and I wasn't expecting the ending. Not a demanding read yet highly enjoyable. I'm not a Sci-Fi fan naturally, but I'm always engaged by David's books. Thoroughly Recommended.
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