Oracle [Paperback]

Mike Resnick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1992

Grown to womanhood and residing on the planet Hades, feared oracle Penenlope Bailey becomes the prey of a bounty hunter, a government agent, and an outlaw cyborg.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This sequel to Soothsayer concerns attempts by the interplanetary empire Democracy to retrieve the Oracle, a young woman who not only can see into several possible futures but can influence events so that the future she desires will come to pass. She is located on Alpha Crepello III, and it is believed that her influence has kept that planet of aliens out of the Democracy. The Democracy hires an old man with a shady past known as "the Iceman" to pursue the young woman; he in turn hires "the Whistler," a highly skilled assassin. But then the Democracy leaders decide to have the Oracle killed rather than retrieved--so they send in "the Injun," which results in a race among the hired hands to reach the Oracle first. There's just enough action to keep the pages turning, but only just. The preponderance of people who use silly nicknames--including the Democracy agent running this operation, known only as "32"--gets tiresome, and the anticlimactic ending, which brings the Oracle, the Whistler, the Iceman and the Injun all together, happens much too quickly after nearly 250 pages of buildup.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ace; First Edition edition (October 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441586945
• ISBN-13: 978-0441586943
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,182,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mike Resnick is the author of numerous science fiction novels and short stories, including Dragon America, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Amulet of Power, Mutiny, Return to Santiago, and Santiago. He is the editor of This Is My Funniest and has won five Hugo Awards and the Nebula Award. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader, August 30, 2007

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This review is from: Oracle (Paperback)

Penelope is now a grown woman, and still causing consternation in the hierarchies of power, because her ability to see the future allows her to change things.

The Iceman becomes involved, and he hires an agent, and a third agent also appears after the authorities decide that the Iceman's activities may not be in their best interests.

Suddenly, you get a bunch of these people after the same woman at the same time.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece of literary imagination!, October 4, 1997

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This review is from: Oracle (Paperback)

The extreme detail expressed throughout the book perfectly generates the aura of how a rebuilt post-apocolyptic world would be like. With the addition of an ever-present danger of an alien race now residing and controlling the population, the story-line holds the reader at seat's edge beyond just the pages of Oracle!