Blueheart [Import] [Paperback]

Alison Sinclair (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: McArthur & Company / Not Applicable; New Ed edition (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0752817086
• ISBN-13: 978-0752817088
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Richly detailed physical AND political world, August 27, 1998

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Karen A. Blood (Baltimore, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blueheart (Mass Market Paperback)

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:

5.0 out of 5 stars World creation at its best, January 21, 1999

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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:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, July 18, 2001

By A Customer

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.