Jacob's Ladder: Dust (Series #1) (Paperback)

from amf0001

I really enjoyed this book. Elizabeth Bear is just getting better and better. Carnival was good, but thsi has moments of magic. There were some sophisticated concepts here which I just loved and the computers/angels/demons was well thought out. The entire world and it's medieval theme and forced ...

from Jenson_AKA_DL

Sir Perceval has been captured, her wings shorn and is a prisoner awaiting consumption when she is discovered by the serving girl, Rien. However, Perceval knows more about Rien than what she herself does. In order to stop a war and save their world from immolation these two must join forces with ...

from LisCarey

Jacob's Ladder is a generation ship, launched by an unusual religious cult, now stranded in orbit around a double star. After 500 years of drifting in orbit, the ship damaged and the the ship's AI fragmented into multiple units that have been dubbed Angels, the ship's population is divided into s...

from eviljosh

Very interesting book about interstellar exploration by a future humanity somewhere between Kardashev Type I and Type II, with functional, intelligent nanotech, but without any supralight travel or communication. The author does an excellent job with both the time scale involved with generation s...

from slothman

Bear gives us an excellent demonstration of Clarke's Third Law, set in a derelict generation ship where the ancestors of the current inhabitants bequeathed their descendants a set of medieval social structures enforced by the artificial intelligences that run the ship. The characters have a seaml...