Tor Science Fiction: Up Against It (Paperback)

from DLMorrese

This is a good old fashioned science fiction story. One of the plot threads is about four spunky teenagers, which reminded me of stories like the Hardy Boys or Tom Corbett Space Cadet. Other parts are like the pulp sci-fi stories from the 1940s-1960s - except with several female characters in sta...

from chaosmogony

Not a bad book, but something here just didn't click. There were bright spots, but they were inconsistent and unevenly placed between plenty of stretches which I found myself glossing over. Neither the story nor the characters really resonated with me in the way I expect out of a five-star read. ...

from klh

This is a really good HardSF urban adventure. The urban locale is a colony of 200,000 inside and around an asteroid in the Sol system. It starts out with teens on 'rocketbikes' and seems like it might be a young-adult coming-of-age story, but it is much more. Shifting points of view between the f...

from LisCarey

Geoff and his friends on the asteroid Phocaea, just graduated from school, pull of an epic technical hack. They successfully dodge the omnipresent camera remotes of "Stroiders, a reality show broadcasting the lives of the Phocaeans to the entire system. It's a triumph. It's quickly followed by s...

from BobVTReader

A good old fashion hard SF tale with a little bit of punk. Good character development interessting plot and for the most part well written.