Mackey Chandler
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Common Ground 1 Exemplar
No Early Birds 1 Exemplar
Going Up? (collection of SS) 1 Exemplar
The Long View (April Series Book 14) 1 Exemplar
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As far as I can tell, April is Mackey Chandler’s first novel and the first novel in a series that now has twelve volumes. It is a near-future coming of age story that owes very much to Robert A. Heinlein. April is a space-born resident of Mitsubishi 3, a large space habitat in Earth Orbit. There is also an evolved version of the International Space Station and a Lunar colony. Earth politics is just as cutthroat and complicated as ever. The space habitats have developed an independent culture that is more purely democratic and libertarian than any of the religious tyrannies or corrupt corporate states on Earth. (By the way, the book is set much too early—there is no chance so many large-scale space habitats could be built by 2083. Technological optimism is a common affliction of science fiction writers—at least the ones that don’t mumble in their beer about dystopian futures.) Like Heinlein’s juvenile novels, April describes a world in which all the kids are brilliant and independent—even the ones who lack a moral compass. They make major advances in science and technology in what on Earth would be a basement workshop. And when the revolution comes, they are the first ones to man the barricades. Think Heinlein’s Rolling Stones mashed up with The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Chandler is not the stylist that Heinlein was, but he tells an engaging story. 3.5 stars.… (mehr)