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posted by [personal profile] kgbooklog at 01:53am on 26/10/2006 under , ,
Joel Shepherd, Crossover
Pyr (2001) ISBN: 159102443-9
Score: 3

First novel about Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial human designed to be a perfect soldier. This is set in a future where humanity has colonized many solar systems, divided between the traditionalists and innovation-at-all-costers, and they just fought a large (but inconclusive) war over whether artificial people should be created. At the end of the war, Cassandra deserts and tries to hide as a civilian on a traditional world, which works for almost a whole chapter (plus a year before the book starts). Then there's lots of politics and government agencies doing bad things and Stuff Blowing Up. The book ends after the fighting but before the major political mess (inquiries, trials, negotiations, debates, protests, rumblings of civil war, etc.), and it'll be interesting to see how much of that the second book shows before things get violent again.

Next Book: Liz Williams, The Demon and the City

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