Reckoning Infinity edition by John E Stith Children eBooks
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A riveting exploration of what it means to be an alien...and what it means to be human. Explorers sent deep into the interior of a moon-sized alien visitor may wind up dead before they discover the visitor's secrets. The team includes a woman who received several bionic replacements after an accident and the man she blames for the accident. Could be thought of as Rendezvous with Rama meets A Journey to the Center of the Earth. On the Science Fiction Chronicle best of year list. Chosen by the New York Public Library as one of their Best Books for Young Adults. Winner of the Colorado Authors' League Top Hand Award. Reached the preliminary Nebula Award ballot. Science Fiction Book Club selection.
Praise for Reckoning Infinity
"A taut, solidly written adventure with well-handled character interactions...this is his best outing so far."--Kirkus Reviews
"[Stith] has always had a real talent for describing bizarre environments...will offer fans of hard SF much to satisfy their sense of wonder."—Publishers Weekly
"John Stith is among the finest writers of hard science fiction in the world. ... In what can best be described as `The Six-Million Dollar Woman' meets `Rendezvous with Rama,' Stith will keep you turning the pages as he reveals the marvels of an alien `moonscape.'"—Rocky Mountain News
"vividly imagined, from the big opening scenes of the shuttle-habitat collision, to the descriptions of the medical procedures used to save Alis's life, to the small details of working (and being injured) in spacesuits."—Locus
Reckoning Infinity edition by John E Stith Children eBooks
Good story...clean character build and beautiful scene design. The rewrite to kinde left lots of punctuation errors, and a few spelling errors.Product details
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Reckoning Infinity edition by John E Stith Children eBooks Reviews
While the book presents a couple of interesting ideas, it is, overall slow and very drawn-out. The plot goes nowhere, with the characters (most of which you won't be able to stand) literally going around in circles time after time after boring time. Perhaps the most dissappointig part, though, is that after you've read through all the drudgery, you expect the ending to resolve some of the things that happened and questions that came up along the way. Does it? No..... It just kind of .... stops. If you're looking for a boring, go-nowhere attempt at sci-fi, then this is the book for you.
Stith provides a perfect reason to chafe against categories like "hard" and "soft" SF. While he does a craftsmanlike job of producing an adequately bewildering alien environment, it all seems rather cursory and unengaging. The real reward here is the unusually-developed characters, who interact with a humanity, equally childish and compassionate, that is often lost in more "ennobled" works. Giving the book three stars is almost arbitrary. As pure science fiction, it falls flat. As a character study, it just might have something...
This is an "alien object approaches solar system" story. The begining, involving an accidental collision of a shuttle craft with an earth-orbit space station is quite good. The set-up of the two main characters, Alis and Karl, is done quite well. Things go downhill from there, however. The two are reunited by chance in a survey ship near Pluto, when the alien object comes onto the scene. The plot drags as the team sent to investigate the object stumbles through a series of mishaps. The characters, particularly the supporting cast to the two principals, are petty and peevish. The conclusion is painfully obvious. If you want to read about alien objects, Greg Bear's "Eon" or ACC's "Rendezvous with Rama" are much more fulfilling.
This was a book I randomly picked up due to its cheap price and not having something to read at the moment. Rarely do I get such an amazing surprise as this.
Having been an avid reader of Feist, Niven, Anthony, Pavolini, Ashimov, etc., I was amazed to find such an unknown author have such a work of art. You start out cringing (especially if you read the book preview on the back), and then feeling the pain and anguish of the main character.
As the story progresses you can see the struggle for a beautiful woman who has partially become a cyborg, deal with her trials, then have to overcome the worst of them to work with the cause of her trauma.
While she, he, and several others try to comprehend the mystery that is rapidly approaching earth, she learns to appreciate he special repairs, as well as forgive.
While I agree with other reviewers that there are many hints as to what the planetoid is throughout the book, there are also many reasons given to doubt that speculation. In the end many of the answers are given, but many more questions are raised which could have been (and maybe still could be), brought up in subsequent books or prequils.
I found this truly to be a diamond in the rough. My only wish is that there was more such as this from this author.
An excellent book with a very well-thought-out, well-executed plot. And, in the persons of Alis and Kurt, two very well-rendered, sympathetic (and empathetic characters. Stith has taken and old idea -- first contact with an alien species -- and twisted it into a novel of exploration, human conflict, and optimism about the human condition. The 'alien' he's created, a half-living, half-mechanical sphere, 100 km in diameter, that passes thru the Sol system, is imaginative and conveys that most enjoyable (and rare) element of science fiction -- a sense of wonder. This, combined with the story, makes the book a fun and thoughtful read. I have just one complaint, a spot at the end where Stith drops the ball at the epilog. After following four people through 200 pages, how on earth could he forget to tell the reader what happened to Lucy? And how on earth could Kurt Stanton, who worried so much about everyone else, and felt so bad about leaving a colleague's dead body in the alien artifact, not even ask about Lucy? This slip is out of character. Why didn't Stith's editor point it out? Maybe the paper edition will correct the oversight? Otherwise, great book!
I love first contact stories, so I had high hopes for this book. Alas.
First of all, the title has absolutely nothing to do with the book.
The characters are inane. The spend about two-thirds of the book sniping at each other despite being in desperate circumstances. When their lives were in danger, for some of them, I actually was hoping that they would get killed, just so I wouldn't have to listen to their juvenile name-calling.
Some of the action is precipitated by an impending inadvertent collision that is about as likely as me being hit by a meteor while typing this review.
If you are a first contact junkie like me, you might want to read this book just for the nonhuman part, which is mostly very interesting despite some over-reliance on green goo and other cliches. But once the action was firmly established, I skipped over most of the dialog.
It's off to a good start. The premise is promising and the characters are well developed. Than it all falls apart. We are wandering through tunnels and tunnels and tunnels and...........through the alien spacecraft with no end in sight. Over a third of the book gets bogged down without advancing the story. Finally it comes to a not very satisfying end. Save your time and money and look for a better book.
Good story...clean character build and beautiful scene design. The rewrite to kinde left lots of punctuation errors, and a few spelling errors.
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