The author of Clark County, Space, weaves a powerful story of a corrupt corporation planning to release a deadly artificial life form on St. Louis in 2012 and the reporter trying to live long enough to prevent it.
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Steele (Labyrinth of Night) makes his hardcover debut with this brisk thriller set in an earthquake-devastated St. Louis in the year 2013. Eleven months after the quake, the city remains under martial law, policed by the troops of the federal Emergency Relief Agency. When hard-up reporter (and narrator) Gerry Rosen-whose son was killed and marriage ruined by the quake-gets a mysterious message meant for his best friend, fellow reporter John Tiernan, Rosen thinks he's stumbled onto a big story about corporate underhandedness. It soon becomes clear, however, that the story is far more important and dangerous than that. Tiernan is murdered, Rosen's apartment is ransacked by ERA troops and the reporter finds himself on the run, racing against time and ERA soldiers to fathom a conspiracy that threatens the entire country. Steele keeps the action moving at a breathless pace right up to the nail-biting climax. There's little that's new in his near-future setting, though-or in his plot, which treats its basic ingredients, artificial intelligence and corporate conspiracy, in a formulaic way, making this an entertaining page-turner but nothing more. (Nov.) Nonfiction
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Gerry Rosen, reporter for the Big Muddy Inquirer, uncovers a story too dangerous to print when he becomes involved in an undercover attempt to preserve the last vestiges of freedom in the United States, which is currently wracked by environmental disasters and threatened by increasing control from government relief agencies. Set in 21st-century St. Louis, this taut sf novel by Steele (Labyrinth of Night, Berkley, 1992) pits ordinary people against the bureaucratic machine. Most libraries will want this for their sf collections.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Allen Steele is a science fiction writer with sixteen novels and five collections of short fiction to his credit. His works have received the Hugo, Locus, Seiun, and Science Fiction Weekly awards, and have been nominated for the Nebula, Sturgeon, and Sidewise Awards. His first published story, "Live from the Mars Hotel," was published in 1988, and his first novel, Orbital Decay, was published in 1989. His best-known work is the Coyote series -- Coyote, Coyote Rising, Coyote Frontier, Coyote Horizon, and Coyote Destiny -- and the associative novels set in the same universe: Spindrift, Galaxy Blues, and the forthcoming Hex. A graduate of New England College and the University of Missouri, he is a former journalist, and once spent a brief tenure as a Washington correspondent. He was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, and now lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and dogs.
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Incredibly prescient,
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This review is from: The Jericho Iteration (Paperback)
While reviews for this book were ho-hum when it first came out, The Jericho Iteration deserves a re-reading in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Just as the federal government uses earthquake-ravaged St. Louis for its experiments in controlling and containing civilian populations, look at the disaster that continues in New Orleans to see how on the mark Steele was in this book written long before the levees were breached. Ten months after Katrina hit and the public schools are closed, the city government is trumped by federal agencies, and the local population slides into despair rather than action. While the sfnel element of a networked AI stands out from today's nightmare, Steele has always had an excellent eye toward political extrapolation. Give this one a read, or a re-read if you glossed over it.
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Neural software saves the day,
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This review is from: The Jericho Iteration (Paperback)
Gerry Rosen clearly has more problems than an ordinary joe should have to deal with. There's the wife he's lost, the deceased son's recurring memory, and the boss from hell. I enjoyed the characterizations, which are seen through Gerry's eyes. The images of St. Louis following a cataclysmic earthquake were compelling. And I was captivated by Gerry's palmtop which might well have been as wondrous as "Box" from "Star Cops" (except it didn't do searches quite so impressively). I'm most critical of Steele's choice of the military, first as rescuers, then as treasonous villains. Surely, there would be huge numbers of Paul Revere's out there to wise the public up to the coup about to happen. What's the Internet good for, otherwise?
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Jericho delivers...,
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This review is from: The Jericho Iteration (Paperback)
Steele weaves an imaginative story of government corruption and corporate intrigue with The Jericho Iteration. I wasn't completely satisfied with his characterizations of the AI. It seemed a bit too human in it's reactions, but Steele's style and tightly paced writing delivered the goods in the end.
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