Against Gravity
Gary Gibson
Pan Macmillan
Paperback, pages not given, R80.00
Reviewed by Ian Jamieson, on 29 August 2006
As I am heading for Worldcon in Japan in 2007 I am looking forward to,
among other things, being able to buy Science Fiction Literature which will
hopefully have a different slant to our local imports.
In the year 2096 much has changed in the Western Hemisphere: the United
States has had a disastrous civil war, with L.A. being wiped out by a nuke;
crops are being destroyed by the Rot; and people are dying in their millions.
Kendrick Gallmon is a survivor of the Maze, a place of infinite torture
designed to create the ultimate soldier by using Nanotech Augmentations. It
didn't work and Kendrick's Aug's have gone rogue and will surely kill him.
He goes first to the now abandoned Maze and then finally to the huge space
station called Archimedes where an AI called the Bright has taken over. The
Bright has announced that they are going to construct a Wormhole which can
take the Archimedes to the end of time and solve all the Maze's survivors
problems.
Does it Work?
We don't know!
A very poor ending (wait for book II) for what is a reasonably
entertaining if slightly overlong book.
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