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Es el futuro a mediano plazo. Una buena parte del sistema solar ha sido colonizada. La Tierra, Marte, el cinturón de asteroides y las lunas de Júpiter y Saturno ahora son los principales poderes de la humanidad, en constante tensión política y/o militar, aunque sin guerras a gran escala. Hasta ahora.
Una nave de carga que transporta hielo desde Saturno a los asteroides atiende una señal de emergencia (ese viejo cliché) de otra nave varada cerca de su camino. Poco se imaginan los tripulantes del c ...more
Una nave de carga que transporta hielo desde Saturno a los asteroides atiende una señal de emergencia (ese viejo cliché) de otra nave varada cerca de su camino. Poco se imaginan los tripulantes del c ...more
If the 5 star rating doesn't make it clear ... I loved this book and will definitely be reading the next in the series.
Now for the spoil-less details.
The action is well paced. Reading was like riding a perfectly designed roller coaster. The highs and lows just right and in just the right places to keep me feeling like I was having the time of my life.
The characters ... all beautifully flawed. I hated, loved, ached for, was irritated with and laughed at/with every single one of them. I loved the ...more
Now for the spoil-less details.
The action is well paced. Reading was like riding a perfectly designed roller coaster. The highs and lows just right and in just the right places to keep me feeling like I was having the time of my life.
The characters ... all beautifully flawed. I hated, loved, ached for, was irritated with and laughed at/with every single one of them. I loved the ...more
There is a lot to like in this book. I enjoyed the characters, I liked how it alternated between outer-space adventure and a kind of futuristic noir-lite (I think it was going for full-on futuristic noir but never quite got dark enough. So, noir-lite.)
It's only in the middle section that the book loses a star or so in my rating here. The two point-of-view characters come together and the whole thing switches into a kind of action-adventure mode and becomes a lot less interesting. And when the al ...more
It's only in the middle section that the book loses a star or so in my rating here. The two point-of-view characters come together and the whole thing switches into a kind of action-adventure mode and becomes a lot less interesting. And when the al ...more
A few hundred years from now, humanity has colonized the Solar System. Mars and Earth (the “Inner Planets”) are the developed juggernauts of society, with Earth crowded by a population of thirty billion. The rest of humanity lives on various moons and asteroids (the “Outer Planets”), hollowed out or domed for habitation. Tension between the Inner Planets and the fringe has been constant for centuries, with the fringe being gouged on taxes and kept cowed by the massively powerful Mars-Earth combi
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Really fun all the way through. One of those books that makes you miss your bus stop because you're enthralled and can't put it down.
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Enjoyed the universe and the interaction between the two main characters. Look forward to the other books in the series
May 28, 2012
Ryan
marked it as to-read
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