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Lädt ... Critical Massvon Daniel Suarez
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. as much as i loved the lead-up to the the denouement, it came and went so quickly i almost missed it. with less than 30 pages to go, i was seriously expecting a cliff-hanger, with a third book handling the rescue attempt. instead, not only were most of four years of storyline tied up with bows, it was as if the author simply ran out of ideas and took the easy way out... Critical Mass is a close sequel to Daniel Suarez’s Delta-V (2019) in which cave diver James Tighe is hired to join a private expedition to begin an asteroid mining industry. In Critical Mass, Tighe has returned home, but now he must organize a team to build a space station and a nuclear spacecraft at a lunar Lagrange point. He intends to lead a mission to rescue the teammates he left behind. The story is heavy on engineering detail, which I consider a feature rather than a bug. Critical Mass is the first novel I have read that seriously discusses plumbing issues on a space station using spin gravity. Tighe is a well-rounded character, and there is enough action to make the exposition go down easy. Recommended. 4 stars. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroid-kicking off a new space race in which Earth's climate crisis could well hang in the balance"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Then the reader is taken through the creation of a space station in upper lunar orbit by the vestiges of Catalyst Corporation. They have to deal with the politics on Earth, getting to orbit with some subterfuge, and then establish an entire economy in cislunar space through the use of blockchain tokens (which doesn't age so well post-Samuel Bankman Fried. Suarez seems to be a cryptocurrency believer). All of it culminates in getting a ship built and launched to rescue Abarca and Adedayo.
My main complaint with the first book was that it spent too much time on the training portions. This book too has a bloated middle, and frankly I checked out and skimmed 200 pages to get through it. Credit to the author for a really realistic-seeming course of events- things go wrong, people die randomly, a solar flare causes great danger, etc. And he's really thought through the science and does a great job imparting the difficulty likely to accompany the "pioneering" phase of space exploration- there are no Star Trek gleaming corridors and bullshit "artificial gravity" here.
So a worthwhile read, and I see my rating is well below the average so obviously lots of people liked it more. I just want the author to be more economical with his story. ( )