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Dec. 10th, 2009
Dark Space Review
Dec. 10th, 2009 01:05 pmHi,
So I just finished Dark Space: The Sentients of Orion Book 1 by Marianne de Pierres. And that Book 1 is very significant. Absolutely no major question raised during the book gets answered. The book doesn't finish on a halfway reasonable stopping point. Just...arg.
So you've got Sole, this cosmic super-intelligence discovered by a starfaring prospector. The Orion League sets up shop near where Sole sits and sends the brightest minds to get their brains reconfigured by Sole in an attempt to understand what the hell it is and what kinds of high-tech goodies they can get from it.
Meanwhile, on a forgotten backwater planet, Mira is about to become First Pilot, the only person able to bond with the bioships that allow interstellar travel. She's also the first woman to carry the gene. This is troublesome on a planet like Araldis where gender discrimination is pretty heavily entrenched. Then she finds out that Trin, son of the ruler, is slated to become First Pilot. She goes on the lam, Araldis gets invaded, and the book works towards its cliffhanger ending.
There's nothing overall awful about the book. It's pretty well done and a lot of the high-tech is well handled with an organic bent. The plotting moves along, but it never really seems to get anywhere. I'm not super interested in picking up the next installment.
later
Tom
So I just finished Dark Space: The Sentients of Orion Book 1 by Marianne de Pierres. And that Book 1 is very significant. Absolutely no major question raised during the book gets answered. The book doesn't finish on a halfway reasonable stopping point. Just...arg.
So you've got Sole, this cosmic super-intelligence discovered by a starfaring prospector. The Orion League sets up shop near where Sole sits and sends the brightest minds to get their brains reconfigured by Sole in an attempt to understand what the hell it is and what kinds of high-tech goodies they can get from it.
Meanwhile, on a forgotten backwater planet, Mira is about to become First Pilot, the only person able to bond with the bioships that allow interstellar travel. She's also the first woman to carry the gene. This is troublesome on a planet like Araldis where gender discrimination is pretty heavily entrenched. Then she finds out that Trin, son of the ruler, is slated to become First Pilot. She goes on the lam, Araldis gets invaded, and the book works towards its cliffhanger ending.
There's nothing overall awful about the book. It's pretty well done and a lot of the high-tech is well handled with an organic bent. The plotting moves along, but it never really seems to get anywhere. I'm not super interested in picking up the next installment.
later
Tom
Dark Space Review
Dec. 10th, 2009 01:05 pmHi,
So I just finished Dark Space: The Sentients of Orion Book 1 by Marianne de Pierres. And that Book 1 is very significant. Absolutely no major question raised during the book gets answered. The book doesn't finish on a halfway reasonable stopping point. Just...arg.
So you've got Sole, this cosmic super-intelligence discovered by a starfaring prospector. The Orion League sets up shop near where Sole sits and sends the brightest minds to get their brains reconfigured by Sole in an attempt to understand what the hell it is and what kinds of high-tech goodies they can get from it.
Meanwhile, on a forgotten backwater planet, Mira is about to become First Pilot, the only person able to bond with the bioships that allow interstellar travel. She's also the first woman to carry the gene. This is troublesome on a planet like Araldis where gender discrimination is pretty heavily entrenched. Then she finds out that Trin, son of the ruler, is slated to become First Pilot. She goes on the lam, Araldis gets invaded, and the book works towards its cliffhanger ending.
There's nothing overall awful about the book. It's pretty well done and a lot of the high-tech is well handled with an organic bent. The plotting moves along, but it never really seems to get anywhere. I'm not super interested in picking up the next installment.
later
Tom
So I just finished Dark Space: The Sentients of Orion Book 1 by Marianne de Pierres. And that Book 1 is very significant. Absolutely no major question raised during the book gets answered. The book doesn't finish on a halfway reasonable stopping point. Just...arg.
So you've got Sole, this cosmic super-intelligence discovered by a starfaring prospector. The Orion League sets up shop near where Sole sits and sends the brightest minds to get their brains reconfigured by Sole in an attempt to understand what the hell it is and what kinds of high-tech goodies they can get from it.
Meanwhile, on a forgotten backwater planet, Mira is about to become First Pilot, the only person able to bond with the bioships that allow interstellar travel. She's also the first woman to carry the gene. This is troublesome on a planet like Araldis where gender discrimination is pretty heavily entrenched. Then she finds out that Trin, son of the ruler, is slated to become First Pilot. She goes on the lam, Araldis gets invaded, and the book works towards its cliffhanger ending.
There's nothing overall awful about the book. It's pretty well done and a lot of the high-tech is well handled with an organic bent. The plotting moves along, but it never really seems to get anywhere. I'm not super interested in picking up the next installment.
later
Tom