- Gebundene Ausgabe: 528 Seiten
- Verlag: Ace Hardcover (4. Januar 2005)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0441012418
- ISBN-13: 978-0441012411
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,2 x 14 x 4 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.047.689 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Metzger, a regular contributor to Wired and a Nebula nominee for the novel Picoverse (2002), launches his latest from an astonishing premise. A solar flare shifts the position of the sun and mysteriously provokes the eruption on Earth of two mammoth rings--one circling the equator; the other, the poles. In the aftermath of this cataclysm, a vastly diminished global community reorganizes into strictly defined genetic classes and plugs itself into a nearly infinite cyberspace realm called the Void. The story that follows these arrangements concerns the intertwined destinies of a father and his daughter trying to avoid fieldwork conscription by trolling the Void, and a genetically modified programmer hoping to make the evolutionary leap to a posthuman identity. Yet an enigmatic entity dwelling in the Void may have its own plans for human evolution via a supercomputer known as CUSP, which runs on the "software" of the human mind. Metzger's background as a telecommunications scientist enables a brilliant, sprawling vision of humanity in the late-twenty-first century. Carl Hays
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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The year is 2051. An enigmatic entity has its own plan for human evolution, using the supercomputer known as CUSP-the first machine designed to run on the software of the human mind...
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16 von 17 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Worst "singularity" fiction of the year
14. Juni 2005
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I expected to enjoy this book. It had glowing dust-jacket blurbs by first-rate authors, excellent cover art, and an interesting premise. Plus, I'm a huge fan of hard SF, and I own almost everything that Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross and Greg Egan have ever written. But this book, unfortunately, was a total disaster.
Metzger's space opera is dragged down by poor craftsmanship. His choice of terminology is often awkward; for example, he refers to heavily-modified cyborgs as "ultra-Tools" without the slightest sense of irony. His exotic alien technology comes across as so much Star Trek technobabble--there's a different superpower in every chapter, but without the redeeming campiness of E.E. Smith's Lensmen. And Metzger never gets enough mileage out of his admittedly clever ideas. He'll introduce something exotic enough to test any writer's skill, explore it sloppily and unoriginally for two pages, and then allow it to drop into the background.
Metzger's characters, though, deserve special opprobrium. First, there's just too darn many--the general, the hard-boiled cop with enhanced reflexes, the talking dinosaur, the software reincarnation of Bill Gates, the father and daughter with genetically-engineered nervous systems, and the "Post Point" transhuman who taps Zero Point energy. Even worse, though, is the failure of these characters to live up to the undemanding standards of space opera. Space opera, like any adventure story, works fine with archetypal characters, but Metzger can't even write a convincing hard-boiled cop. And when Metzger's most humane character wipes out North America with a solar flare, she agonizes for less than a paragraph before complimenting herself on her problem-solving skills.
Last night, with ten pages to go and the fate of the planet hanging in the balance, I put down Cusp and went to sleep.
Metzger's space opera is dragged down by poor craftsmanship. His choice of terminology is often awkward; for example, he refers to heavily-modified cyborgs as "ultra-Tools" without the slightest sense of irony. His exotic alien technology comes across as so much Star Trek technobabble--there's a different superpower in every chapter, but without the redeeming campiness of E.E. Smith's Lensmen. And Metzger never gets enough mileage out of his admittedly clever ideas. He'll introduce something exotic enough to test any writer's skill, explore it sloppily and unoriginally for two pages, and then allow it to drop into the background.
Metzger's characters, though, deserve special opprobrium. First, there's just too darn many--the general, the hard-boiled cop with enhanced reflexes, the talking dinosaur, the software reincarnation of Bill Gates, the father and daughter with genetically-engineered nervous systems, and the "Post Point" transhuman who taps Zero Point energy. Even worse, though, is the failure of these characters to live up to the undemanding standards of space opera. Space opera, like any adventure story, works fine with archetypal characters, but Metzger can't even write a convincing hard-boiled cop. And when Metzger's most humane character wipes out North America with a solar flare, she agonizes for less than a paragraph before complimenting herself on her problem-solving skills.
Last night, with ten pages to go and the fate of the planet hanging in the balance, I put down Cusp and went to sleep.
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Too many ideas spoil the novel
21. Juli 2005
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I quite enjoy SF in general, including the hard stuff. But this was hard in a different way -- hard to make out what the heck was going on. Seemed like Metzger had lots and lots of coffee before writing this one, and couldn't bear to let any idea, no matter how zany, slip away. It was entertaining, but only because I borrowed it from somebody and didn't have to be mad about the money I paid for it. Head to Brin, Benford, or Niven for hard SF... avoid this one.
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WRITTEN IN AN INCOHERENT STYLE
27. November 2005
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I love hard sci-fi , especially stories with grandiose ambitions. However, here the authors ambitions, although grandiose, were not translated into effective writing. Simply put, I never understood what was going on in this book. The author jumps around and never provides any backdrop information. He uses many of his own terms but never explains them. He keeps referring to the "Swirl" the "Void" amd "Tools", but after 400 pages I still dont know what they are. I was very disappointed by this book. I basically was scratching my head the whole time asking myself "what the hell is going on"? I contrast this type of writing with that of my favorite sci-fi author Robert Sawyer, whose plots are always perfectly clear, and stories are totally coherent.
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