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Uplink by Jane S. Fancher revviewed HERE
Deeper, darker and more convolute.
Stephen and Anevai are up on Cetacean, along with the still unresponsive Hono. Wesley is still downworld, and Stephen is sure that if he could just finish a conversation with him for 5 minutes or so, he'd be able to complete a report for the Net Authority - on Wesley's completely new approach to Nspace editing. When nobody seems inclined to allow him to leave, he uses Wesley's techniques to steal a shuttle and crashlands himself and Anevai back onto the planet. However Wesley isn't that amenable to revealing secrest entrusted to him by others. The otehr question Stepehn desperately wants answering is why Nayati tried to kill him, and how similar his Cochetas are to the invisibles from his fragmented childhood memories. Nayati isn't that keen on revealing answers either, and only a desperate trek into the mountain caves can discover a startling Truth.
The jumps of viewpoint are sometimes a little disconcerting, but again are well signaled and it is clear who is speaking. Most disturbingly we get a lot more insight into Stephen's childhhod, with repressed memories surfacing at unwanted times. And it's very clear that Stephen didn't have a happy childhood. Or teenage years. And is in fact doing remarkably well to be functioning at all with all the downworld and offworld pressures that are being brought to bear.
Again Jane does a superb job of keeping the characters knowledge internally consistent and basing each one's actions on what they know, even if to the omnipotent reader it is obvious they are missing some key intrepretation. Again Stepehn gets the brunt of this, but his friends are there to hold him up.
I wasn't totally convinced about the ending, but it works and is much less of a cliffhanger than the previous book. A very solid continuation of the series. Read them!
Comments welcome.
Deeper, darker and more convolute.
Stephen and Anevai are up on Cetacean, along with the still unresponsive Hono. Wesley is still downworld, and Stephen is sure that if he could just finish a conversation with him for 5 minutes or so, he'd be able to complete a report for the Net Authority - on Wesley's completely new approach to Nspace editing. When nobody seems inclined to allow him to leave, he uses Wesley's techniques to steal a shuttle and crashlands himself and Anevai back onto the planet. However Wesley isn't that amenable to revealing secrest entrusted to him by others. The otehr question Stepehn desperately wants answering is why Nayati tried to kill him, and how similar his Cochetas are to the invisibles from his fragmented childhood memories. Nayati isn't that keen on revealing answers either, and only a desperate trek into the mountain caves can discover a startling Truth.
The jumps of viewpoint are sometimes a little disconcerting, but again are well signaled and it is clear who is speaking. Most disturbingly we get a lot more insight into Stephen's childhhod, with repressed memories surfacing at unwanted times. And it's very clear that Stephen didn't have a happy childhood. Or teenage years. And is in fact doing remarkably well to be functioning at all with all the downworld and offworld pressures that are being brought to bear.
Again Jane does a superb job of keeping the characters knowledge internally consistent and basing each one's actions on what they know, even if to the omnipotent reader it is obvious they are missing some key intrepretation. Again Stepehn gets the brunt of this, but his friends are there to hold him up.
I wasn't totally convinced about the ending, but it works and is much less of a cliffhanger than the previous book. A very solid continuation of the series. Read them!
Comments welcome.
