Shaun Myandee
Autor von Ametsapolis Rising
Werke von Shaun Myandee
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- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- London, England, UK
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- Werke
- 1
- Mitglieder
- 33
- Beliebtheit
- #421,955
- Bewertung
- 3.3
- Rezensionen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 1
A nuclear conflict has left the world as the protagonists know it largely uninhabitable. The survivors built an enclosed, multi-tiered city. Even in there contamination is still prevalent enough that their lives are heavily dependent on implants that leave the poorest indebted from birth.
The first protagonist is a young man raised among the outcasts who scrape a living in the surroundings of this city, noticed and brought in when he exhibits atypical abilities
The second protagonist is a scientist woman who unwittingly runs afoul of this same government as her research conflicts with the status quo and the all-powerful implant firms.
The writing is adequate though not stellar, the world fairly interesting. I wasn't too fond of the main protagonist* but the secondary one was quite engaging.
* In part because for most of the novel he functions as a special "Chosen one" which IMHO usually works better in Fantasy than in SciFi, and I'm not too fond of them even there. As the tale winds toward the end however the very erosion of this specialness (no longer so unique, and not as immune from some rules of the world as he may have been led to believe) makes for a quite satisfying undercurrent.… (mehr)