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Ghost Spin (Spin Trilogy, #3)
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Probably a little too complex and weird for many people's tastes but a hell of a blast for me. Lots of deep musings on the nature of identity and consciousness and the strange consequences the quantum nature of the multiverse. Not often we get to jump between the POVs of diverging duplicates of the main character!
It amused me that I had earlier had the same thoughts Caitlyn did when contemplating Nguyen's demise - a necessary evil for a dying UN?
Half a star off for the silly and perfunctory happy ending. (view spoiler)
Another half off for the really shaky astrography of the Spin universe. (I recognize that for most people this is at best Fridge Logic quibbling). First, there's just not enough room in this world's overall timeline for humanity to have colonized quite so widely, much less for the UN to have spread their Bose-Einstein network so far[1]. The quoted distances at the end really didn't seem plausible to me. Second, If there's enough commerce zipping back and forth in the Drift to support ongoing piracy, and enough Drift-reachable civilization to justify large-scale warfare, (view spoiler)
[1] Since condensate has to travel via sublight, at least initially. I don't recall that it's ever explicitly said whether you can send condensate via condensate - such recursion to me is aesthetically displeasing anyway.
It amused me that I had earlier had the same thoughts Caitlyn did when contemplating Nguyen's demise - a necessary evil for a dying UN?
Half a star off for the silly and perfunctory happy ending. (view spoiler)
Another half off for the really shaky astrography of the Spin universe. (I recognize that for most people this is at best Fridge Logic quibbling). First, there's just not enough room in this world's overall timeline for humanity to have colonized quite so widely, much less for the UN to have spread their Bose-Einstein network so far[1]. The quoted distances at the end really didn't seem plausible to me. Second, If there's enough commerce zipping back and forth in the Drift to support ongoing piracy, and enough Drift-reachable civilization to justify large-scale warfare, (view spoiler)
[1] Since condensate has to travel via sublight, at least initially. I don't recall that it's ever explicitly said whether you can send condensate via condensate - such recursion to me is aesthetically displeasing anyway.
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February 1, 2017
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