Book Review - Singularity Sky by Charles Stross + something bout me :)
When I fill up my profile I take extra care to mention literature as my hooby and include the line " I can read everything " for sure ..hmm, so much for modesty u might say. Well I say chauvinism may not be dead but the days of modesty being counted as a virtue are surely over .. if u dont blow ur trumpet , either you dont know anything or you are a bloody high-end literature who feeds off Shakespeare, Milton and has views on Rembrandt or some other Renaissance shit. The latter belief however is instantly and thouroughly dashed by my appearance.. I can be mistaken for a nerd or a doper but certainly not a book lover.
However , my insecurites apart , hehehe ... I have taken special precaution to stay away from sci-fi novels after my school-age dose of Issac Asimov.
However , after a little persuasion I started with Singularity Sky and i wasnt let down , no sire ...
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
‘The day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the cobblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd’.
From the moment that Charles Stross’s debut novel begins, there is a very strong sense that this isn’t run of the mill SF writing. The action centres on Rochard’s World, an outlying planet belonging to the New Republic, a post-Diaspora imperialist society reminiscent of Tsarist Russia. The repressive government of the planet is suddenly threatened by the arrival of The Festival, a massively powerful, anarchic, post-human fleet, which in the space of hours totally subverts the world order. The New Republic’s government concludes that the only way of defeating the festival is by sending a fleet which will arrive before The Festival, by travelling through time, and thereby violating causality. This however risks offending The Eschaton, a god-like post-human entity that watches over mankind to prevent causality violations. As the warships gather engineer Martin Springfield, a citizen of the People’s Republic of West Yorkshire, and Rachel Mansour, a UN intelligence officer, are thrown into the mix – but it soon becomes clear that both of them have their own agenda, and things are far from straightforward.
Singularity Sky is a dazzlingly original and enjoyable book. Although Stross has much in common with Iain M. Banks and Ken Macleod, he has his own distinct voice – always authoritative, always entertaining, and often wryly funny. It is a splendid piece of SF writing, which deserves the widest possible readership .... GO FOR IT dudes and the ladies .. well,you switch on HBO and go for Sex and the City ..
btw what are u doing reading my page anyways ?? heheehe.. chauvinism aint dead, far from it. :))
However , my insecurites apart , hehehe ... I have taken special precaution to stay away from sci-fi novels after my school-age dose of Issac Asimov.
However , after a little persuasion I started with Singularity Sky and i wasnt let down , no sire ...
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
‘The day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the cobblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd’.
From the moment that Charles Stross’s debut novel begins, there is a very strong sense that this isn’t run of the mill SF writing. The action centres on Rochard’s World, an outlying planet belonging to the New Republic, a post-Diaspora imperialist society reminiscent of Tsarist Russia. The repressive government of the planet is suddenly threatened by the arrival of The Festival, a massively powerful, anarchic, post-human fleet, which in the space of hours totally subverts the world order. The New Republic’s government concludes that the only way of defeating the festival is by sending a fleet which will arrive before The Festival, by travelling through time, and thereby violating causality. This however risks offending The Eschaton, a god-like post-human entity that watches over mankind to prevent causality violations. As the warships gather engineer Martin Springfield, a citizen of the People’s Republic of West Yorkshire, and Rachel Mansour, a UN intelligence officer, are thrown into the mix – but it soon becomes clear that both of them have their own agenda, and things are far from straightforward.
Singularity Sky is a dazzlingly original and enjoyable book. Although Stross has much in common with Iain M. Banks and Ken Macleod, he has his own distinct voice – always authoritative, always entertaining, and often wryly funny. It is a splendid piece of SF writing, which deserves the widest possible readership .... GO FOR IT dudes and the ladies .. well,you switch on HBO and go for Sex and the City ..
btw what are u doing reading my page anyways ?? heheehe.. chauvinism aint dead, far from it. :))
posted by arun tokas at Saturday, February 12, 2005
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