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I've read her Nano quartet and felt disappointed by all save the last one. This one was different. The premise in the early 21st century, Hawaii becomes the center of international space exploration, by InterSpace, or IS. IS is researching long term space travel and inhabitation, and building a interstellar generation ship. The problem is that they are breaking international laws on genetic manipulation and nanotech, as well as their own corrupt practices. At the same time, the Homeland Movement in Hawaii has fought them to a stand still over several issues.
The novel is split between two stories and viewpoint characters. One is Lynn Oshima, daughter of the first CEO of InterSpace, long estranged from her father. The other is Century "Cen" Kalakua, a troubled kid who grows up to be one of the leading lights of mathematics of the 21st century. The stories are separated by 27 years (at least at the beginning) and twist together to combine at the end.
I found Cen's story the most compelling - I guess I'm a romantic at heart - in his quest for higher maths in order to pursue his true love and save her. I'd have liked to see how it ended for him.
Lynn's story is a good one as well. She loses her baby to a miscarriage, and in the process sees a boy - Akuma - and is plunged into an adventure taking her to Asia and back to Hawaii. And she learns the Homeland Movement has a plan that is staggering in its audacity and imagination.
I liked this book. I liked it a lot. It plays with Penrose's ideas on quantum consicousness (I don't think I agree with them, but Goonan does a good job handling them). It has characters I care about and give a damn and hope things go well with.
The novel is split between two stories and viewpoint characters. One is Lynn Oshima, daughter of the first CEO of InterSpace, long estranged from her father. The other is Century "Cen" Kalakua, a troubled kid who grows up to be one of the leading lights of mathematics of the 21st century. The stories are separated by 27 years (at least at the beginning) and twist together to combine at the end.
I found Cen's story the most compelling - I guess I'm a romantic at heart - in his quest for higher maths in order to pursue his true love and save her. I'd have liked to see how it ended for him.
Lynn's story is a good one as well. She loses her baby to a miscarriage, and in the process sees a boy - Akuma - and is plunged into an adventure taking her to Asia and back to Hawaii. And she learns the Homeland Movement has a plan that is staggering in its audacity and imagination.
I liked this book. I liked it a lot. It plays with Penrose's ideas on quantum consicousness (I don't think I agree with them, but Goonan does a good job handling them). It has characters I care about and give a damn and hope things go well with.
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