Of all the worlds discovered by star-wandering humanity, Blueheart with its endless, storm-tossed seas is the most beautiful. And the most doomed. Plans are already being made to terraform the planet into another Earth. But deep under the floating forests, the renegade Adaptive--the planet's first colonists--have another dream: the creation of a new aquatic human subspecies. As their struggle erupts into violence, Rache is called back to the seas, where he must choose between his humanity and his world.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Richly detailed physical AND political world,
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This book is not for those in search of pure adventure or thinly-drawn characters. This is David Brin with more emotion and more science. It's filled with politics, families coping, concensus building and finely revealed plot turns. Ms. Sinclair has created the planet Blueheart as a perfect setting for illustrating the intricate human issues related to gene manipulation, human-engineered adaptation, star-travel and terraforming. I was entertained from start to finish and am rathering hoping the author returns to Blueheart - I want to know what happens to these people!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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World creation at its best,
By flying-monkey (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blueheart (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a novel of colonisation and the changes it brings to the place and the colonists. Where many books in this genre develop either the setting at the expense of the characters or the characters at the expense of the setting, Alison Sinclair manages both, and throws in all sorts of current political concerns (environmental destruction, genetic engineering etc.). The way these elements (the water-covered planet with its complex ecosystem and characters you can believe) are moulded together with slow-burning but intriguing plot development is so masterly that it makes it hard to believe that the author is so young... AND her first book, Legacies, was so good too! Alison Sinclair deserves a much wider readership.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic,
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This review is from: Blueheart (Mass Market Paperback)
Alison Sinclair is one of the best new writers in hard SF today. Her future worlds are based on a strong background in real science, combined with complex and interesting characters and spellbinding plots. Blueheart starts with the question of whether to terraform a colonized world or genetically adapt to it, and tells the story of the people whose lives will be changed forever by the outcome of that political decision.
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