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Gravity Dreams
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Orbit (2000-05-04)
ISBN: 1857239741
EAN: 9781857239744
Paperback: 512 pages
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.co.uk Review
A Zen master in a primitive society gets turned into a nanotech-enhanced "demon" by a mad, malicious mushroom-farmer. The master, now gifted with superhuman strength and senses, must flee his fearful Luddite fellows or face death. The similarly gifted, space-faring Rykashans take him in and use more "nanites" to bring their low-tech stray up to speed. Pssht! A spray can of nanites teaches the master the rudiments of Rykashan society. Pssht! He then learns to be a space janitor. Pssht! He later becomes a "needle jockey," a sort of interstellar flying-ace/truck driver, who even gets to talk to God (or a god, at any rate).Leave it to LE Modesitt, Jr. (Fall of Angels, Ghost of the Revelator) to pull off this sort of weirdness. But, as should be expected from such an inventive author, the quirky mise en scène serves a purpose: setting a story of personal transformation against a Twilight Zone-ian backdrop of contrasting societies, ethics and tech levels. Although flat in spots and maybe a little pokey, Gravity Dreams is a winning little SF drama, the tale of one man's realisation that true knowledge doesn't come from a can. --Paul Hughes
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Customer Reviews
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Not his Best
Rating  (2)
Date: 2000-08-08
I've read all Modesitt's previous novels and have especially enjoyed his two "Chaos" & "Song" series. Unfortunately Gravity Dreams failed to hold my attention and I couldn't finish it. The plotting was too slow (for my tastes), the characters uninteresting and the story line seemed banal and predictable. If you haven't read Modesitt before, don't start with this one. Any of his others are much better. Fall of Angels is my personal favorite.
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One of his best because it is not a series
Rating  (4)
Date: 2000-07-18
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Many of the familiar themes are there e.g. personal responsibility, correct use of technology etc., but there is also a sadder element in that the main character starts from a basis of loss both personal and the world that he knew.I would rate this better than The Parafaith War but not so good as Adiamante.
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another solid, creative read
Rating (4)
Date: 1999-07-14
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Although the summary here and on the jacket say this is a "standalone" book, I'm sure those of you who have read Fall of Angels from Modesitt's Saga of Recluse series will notice a host of similarities in culture and language between the two books. I would put forth that someone in Tor's marketing department got it wrong - this is actually a chronological precursor to the Recluse series and admirably crosses the boundary from hard fiction to the "fantasy" world found in the other texts.
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Retail Price: £7.99
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