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Title: Vectors by Michael P. Kube-McDowell ISBN: 0-553-29824-0 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another all-nighter! - Waiting for the sequel!
Comment: Someone else mentioned staying up all night to read Vectors. I found myself once again getting far too little sleep because I just wanted to read "one more chapter!"
Other reviewers have been more eloquent than I but I agree that one of Kube-McDowell's strength's has always been making science interesting to a non-scientest like myself. However, I'd say that what I love best about all of Mr. Kube-McDowell's writing is the way he takes an interesting subject, presents all sides of it, and writes characters you really care about to play out the story.
I'd highly recommend this book, especially to anyone curious about the blending of science and spirituality.
Rating: 5
Summary: Chilling and hopeful look at life and death
Comment: This is a story that explores the unknowable and tries to put the lie to the phrase "the country from which no traveler returns". Do we have a soul? Can it be measured?
The background and texture of the very near future is well crafted. I was impressed by his vision of our society's development under "Homeland Security". The on-going issues of university politics, and the general tendency of science to be more reactionary than many would expect make this believable and real.
I very much look forward to any future books in this universe.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mike's best yet
Comment: I am perhaps not the most objective of sources, as Mike is an old friend of mine. We met our first day of college at Michigan State University (mumble mumble) years ago and have been close friends ever since.
However, what I lack in objectivity, perhaps I can make up for with scope. I've read pretty much every piece of fiction Mike has ever published, a few that he hasn't published, and some of his non-fiction as well.
The story is well enough described in the cover blurb and other materials, so I won't go into that.
All of Mike's books and stories are good, but this is the best yet. In it he combines all his numerous strengths as a writer and human being. Mike has always been able to make the science part of science fiction intelligible to non-science types like me, without talking down, and he weaves the needed explication into the narrative far more seamlessly than most. He was an unusually thoughtful and inquisitive college freshman, and has become an unusually thoughtful and inquisitive mature writer. Without simply falling into credulity, he manages to make the topic of reincarnation, if not yet scientifically respectable, then worthy of cautious inquiry.
More than in most "hard" SF, his characters are fully human and fleshed out, warts and all. The all-too-common "tell the readers what they need to know about quantum mechanics for the story to work, why don't you" kind of dialog is replaced with real conversation between believable human beings. Humor and tragedy interweave in the lives of his characters, just as they do in real life.
I could effuse a lot more, but you get the point.
Do yourself a favor and buy this book. Do some of your friends a favor, and buy them copies, too.
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Title: The Trigger by Arthur C. Clarke, Michael P. Kube-McDowell ISBN: 0553576208 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Emprise: Trigon Disunity by Michael P. Kube-McDowell ISBN: 0743475364 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Enigma by Michael P. Kube-McDowell ISBN: 0743479165 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0345358791 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title:The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (Widescreen Edition) ASIN: B00005JKZY Publisher: New Line Home Entertainment Pub. Date: 25 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.97 |
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