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Published June 8, 2019 by Rowohlt Taschenbuch.
James Tighe, kurz JT, ist ein Glücksritter und der beste Höhlentaucher der Welt. Eines Tages lädt ihn der Milliardär Nathan Joyce auf seine private Insel, um ihm ein Angebot zu machen. Es geht um ein so visionäres wie hochgeheimes Projekt: Von einer Station im All soll ein riesiger Asteroid wirtschaftlich erschlossen werden. Denn die Menschheit des Jahres 2030 ist für ihr Überleben auf Rohstoffe angewiesen
This is a bit like those old Norse sagas: the author is not afraid to kill characters off. It gets a little grim.
Really great hard sci-fi about asteroid mining, though.
This is the hardest of science fiction with technologies which are already here or just over the horizon. That combined with the carefully crafted characters made this story easy to get into without too much cognitive dissonance from the wild story. And what a story! It really takes you for a ride and has some twists and turns and thrills along the way. Loved this!
This book has everything I can ask for from sci-fi. A fun read that felt well researched. Like the other Suarez books I've read, he did a great job of helping me think about the ways space industry will affect society and how it could work.
It didn't grab me right away, but at about the 40% mark of this book, I was unable to put it down. I'm unqualified of course, but it sounds like the author did his homework with the science of this story, which I always appreciate.
I am new to Daniel Suarez but, after two books, I am enjoying what I've read.
I just read Daniel Suarez’s space entrepreneur books Delta V and Critical Mass. A thinly veiled Elon Musk like character over leverages his personal wealth to launch a secret (the crew don’t know just how secret), probably illegal asteroid mining mission. The second book is about their highly politically charged return to Earth and a second mission to mine the lunar surface, and I liked it much better than the first book. The first book is fun, but is kind of laying the groundwork for the second book which is more about building a near future space economy / society, much the way Daemon was a fun technothrillar laying the ground work for the weirdly libertarian yet progressive gamified political thought experiment that was Freedom. I found Suarez’s other work to be pretty lackluster after Daemon and Freedom so these were a nice surprise.
This was good. Not spectacular or anything. About the middle to last third was really compelling and I read most of it in a day. Lackluster ending, I felt. Lots of loose ends.
Stunningly good near future space tale
This guy writes fantastic sci-fi. Well researched and well told. This one is about asteroid mining, geopolitics and the business of spaceflight. And deception, greed and family.
