Labyrinth of Night [Paperback]

Allen Steele (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 29, 2001

"Allen Steele is among the best." (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

"Steele writes with a spirit of exuberant...enthusiasm about our future in space." (Booklist)

The Face. The City. We saw them first in 1976, when the Viking probe flew by the rust-colored desert planet of Mars. Now, the questions will be answered.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Ace (August 29, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441467415
• ISBN-13: 978-0441467419
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,696,595 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, March 7, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Labyrinth of Night (Paperback)

As a TREMENDOUS fan of Steele's "Space" series (Clarke County, Space; Lunar Descent; Orbital Decay), I had hoped for another wonderful, charmingly human yet extremely hard-science near-future sf read. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in all respects by this one. The aliens are remote and uninteresting, the characters are hollow (and this in a STEELE book?!), and the plot is insipid. If I had to make a comparison, this was a lot more reminiscent of Michael Crichton's truly bad efforts ("Sphere," for instance) than any of Steele's prior work

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not very good science fiction, February 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Labyrinth of Night (Paperback)

This seemed to have great promise; the face, pyramids, exploration but it all fell apart shortly into the story and turned into the typical government intervention and conspiracy book, with Mars as the minor story line...disappointing.

2.0 out of 5 stars meh..., June 27, 2009

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Patrick J. Barrett (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Labyrinth of Night (Paperback)

This started out well, but after about 100 pages, Mr. Steele threw out most of the interesting characters and potential plotlines and turned this into a rather boring and predictable drama - supposedly taking part on Mars, but it could have been anywhere. Glad I bought this used.