The devastating Food and Fuel Wars have turned once-powerful nations into isolated farming communities. Barter has replaced currency, and scientists-considered responsible for the world's misery-are burned at the stake. Hidden in the Idaho hills, astronomer Allen Chandliss secretly monitors his radiotelescope, listening for signs of intelligent life, hoping that aliens will come and improve things on Earth. For seventeen years he has waited patiently. His patience is about to pay off. . . .
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A Twist on a Classic SF Theme,
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This review is from: Emprise (Trigon Disunity, Book 1) (Paperback)
EMPRISE was Michael Kube-McDowell's first novel, originally published by Berkley in 1985. It was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award (for best original SF paperback novel), was on Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading list, and finished second (to Carl Sagan's much-higher profile CONTACT) in the Locus Poll balloting for Best First Novel. This reprint edition from the late Byron Preiss's iBooks imprint is in the trade paperback format, and contains as a bonus one of the three uncollected Trigon Disunity short stories ("The Inevitable Conclusion," first published in Amazing Stories).
The passage of time makes it necessary to read the first few pages as alternate history (perhaps another timeline from Kube-McDowell's ALTERNITIES) rather than as future history. But once we get past that point, we're off on a fast-paced globe-spanning struggle to make a fractious and dispirited Earth ready for the arrival of visitors--for First Contact.
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By Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Emprise (Trigon Disunity, Book 1) (Paperback)
Earth has pretty much run out of that fossil fuel stuff that people were so reliant on, and the technology level on the planet has dropped considerably.
The picking up of an alien signal along the lines of 'hi there, mind if we drop in for a visit sometime?' pretty much gets everyone to pull their fingers out and do something about it.
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Cheap Sci - Fi,
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This review is from: Emprise (Trigon Disunity, Book 1) (Paperback)
A novel must be auto-contained: it creates and develops characters, puts them in an imaginative situation and plays with them and the reader at the same time, traveling through different places, ideas and emotions.
I've been looking forward to the the new edition of the Trigon Disunity since I can remember and found myself exhilarated when I found a copy in my local bookshop. Never have I been so misled. Kube-McDowell starts with a great premise, a great beginning for a dark-age Earth. Early in the book he fills his new world with lots of characters, page after page of new ones. Suddenly he doesn't know what to do with them. Before you know it he starts a character massacre or gives the novel an Alzheimer-quality of forgetting mostly everyone. Farther into the story, the plot ponders on interesting and thought provoking ideas and situations, which are regretfully solved with stupid solutions or plot holes: going through dozens of pages looking for a solution which is solved by unknown and uninventive methods in less than three paragraphs. The worst of all is the so-called climax that the story builds up almost at the end of the book. McDowell is presented with such an important moment and historical situation, that he apparently gets afraid with what he might say and do and find the cheap and easy way out, making it an "anti-climax". All the thoroughly discussed moral and ethic concerns are forgotten and thrown to the trash. And something else, the novel does sound racist in some parts: making black and latino people seem savage and uncivilized. THAT is simply beyond a good writer.
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