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The Cage of Zeus Kindle Edition

by Sayuri Ueda (Author), Takami Nieda (Translator)

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THE EDGE OF KNOWN SPACE IS THE EDGE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

The Rounds are humans with the sex organs of both genders. Artificially created to test the limits of the human body in space, they are now a minority, despised and hunted by the terrorist group the Vessel of Life. Aboard Jupiter-I, a space station orbiting the gas giant that shares its name, the Rounds have created their own society with a radically different view of gender and of life itself. Security chief Shirosaki keeps the peace between the Rounds and the typically gendered “Monaurals,” but when a terrorist strike hits the station, the balance of power is at risk...and an entire people is targeted for genocide.

About the author:
Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Sayuri Ueda is one of the more innovative science fiction authors in Japan. She won the 2003 Komatsu Sakyo Award with her debut novel, Mars Dark Ballade. The Cage of Zeus, her second novel, was originally published in 2004. Her recent short fiction collection, Uobune, Kemonobune (Fish Boat, Animal Boat), was highly acclaimed in the SF community and was nominated for the 2009 Japan SF Award. Also nominated for the Seiun Award in the short story category was “Kotori no haka” (The Grave of the Bird) from the collection. Her latest novel, Karyu no miya (The Ocean Chronicles), won the first prize of Best SF 2010 in SF Magazine and was one of the most noteworthy books of the year in any genre.

Length: 300 pages

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File Size: 1559 KB
Print Length: 300 pages
Publisher: Haikasoru/VIZ Media (September 18, 2011)
Publication Date: September 18, 2011
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B005O3001M
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Amusing, but prosaically clumsy

By Kamen on February 4, 2012

Format: Paperback

I admit this book caught my eye at the store because I found the cover art intriguing, and the cover summary more so.

I found the book to suffer from an ailment endemic to high-concept science fiction--clumsy, amateurish prose. The plot and concepts are of paramount importance, and neither the author nor the editor pay much attention to redundancy. Many times the narrator tells us, absolutely needlessly, what has just been clearly illustrated with action and dialogue. It ruins the flow of the story and insults the intelligence of the reader. And, sometimes, when the characters' motivations are made clear by context, the narrator states them anyway. It is annoying, and poor form. Example:

"But Karina's spear had already found its target, plunging into the guard's eye. The monomolecular carbon tip pierce the skull and brain and emerged through the back of his head." (229)

And then, half a paragraph later:

"...the speargun... could be just as lethal as a bullet. Karina's spear was made of monomolecular carbon, capable of piercing flesh and bone..." (229-230)

Wow, I never would have deduced that given that she just plunged it through a guy's skull. And killed him in the process. Examples like this abound throughout the book. Cases in which motivation is needlessly stated are more difficult to give in succinct quotes, but I am sure the astute reader will notice them.

What's strange, and, at the risk of sounding glib, amazingly Japanese, is that Ueda leaves a description of a shared flashback the hell alone. The mono no aware and poignant nature of this scene, and the remembrance that later results as the characters meet at a rather dramatic moment, speaks for itself. No elaboration.Read more ›

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Turgid Prose at its Worst

By R. Pylman on February 10, 2014

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I know why I didn't like this book... the prose is exceptionally bad. What I don't know is what the root cause of that problem is. Has the author never taken even a high school writing class? Is the translator bad at their job? Is the author actually writing in English, rather than her native Japanese? I don't know, but the end result is chapters that don't seem to serve any purpose in advancing the narrative, descriptions that make little sense and burden the story, and lots more of the braces-and-belt kind of show-and-tell that another reviewer mentioned than you can shake a stick at.

I suspect there's a good story under the bad writing... somewhere. I just couldn't get past the bad writing to find it.

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Very good story and it was translated well

By Darlene R. Coombes on July 4, 2014

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Very good story and it was translated well. I will be recommending it to a professor I know for one of his lit classes. I willlook fo rmy by this author, and hopefully the same translator.

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Great Story

By Janet Ellston on April 4, 2013

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I lost my Kindle half way through this book and it is so captivating, I had to buy the paperback instead of wait to find the Kindle again. It is a page turner.

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Four Stars

By litta on April 1, 2015

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over all a good book

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