Downbelow Station

[george moromisato]

On Memos from the Multiverse this week I've posted a short review of Downbelow Station, one of the books that has inspired Transcendence.

http://multiverse.kronosaur.com/news.hexm?id=328

[digdug]

George,
You definitely made me want to read those books now ! brilliant !

Btw, the union sounds a lot like the corporate to me or at least like the half-evil version of it

[VTbmac]

I can definitely recommend Downbelow Station. It is a great book. I looked at the wikipedia page and found out there are others in the series that follow after it. Gonna have to give those a read.

[FourFire]

And then the muderer-hobo arrives, decimating the Union within ten hours.
Nothing stands against them, and they are without mercy.
The Union is but a distraction to them, they continue to the edge of known space, approaching the celestial guardians...

Thanks for mentioning that George, now I want to read some more Hard, future history.

[Atarlost]

Thanks for the rec. I'd read the Faded Sun trilogy in omnibus in the past and it hadn't inspired me to seek out her other works. Downbelow Station makes a much better starting point.

George,
You definitely made me want to read those books now ! brilliant !

Btw, the union sounds a lot like the corporate to me or at least like the half-evil version of it

The defining characteristic of the Union is the use of clones. They're very obviously the base for the Ares with a bit of red scare thrown in if that wasn't part of the Union already. The Azi, cloned and electronically indoctrinated, remind me of the New Soviet Man.

[FourFire]

I just finished reading the amazing hard scifi books Dragon's Egg, and Starquake, by Robert L. Forward.