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Boss loves to dive historical ships, derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Sometimes she salvages for money, but mostly she’s an active historian. She wants to know about the past—to experience it firsthand. Once she’s dived the ship, she’ll either leave it for others to find or file a claim so that she can bring tourists to dive it as well. It’s a good life for a tough loner, with more interest in artifacts than people.
Then one day, Boss finds the claim of a lifetime: an enormous spacecraft, incredibly old, and apparently Earth-made. It’s impossible for something so old, built in the days before Faster Than Light travel, to have journeyed this far from Earth. It shouldn’t be here. It can’t be here. And yet, it is. Boss’s curiosity is up, and she’s determined to investigate. She hires a group of divers to explore the wreck with her, the best team she can assemble. But some secrets are best kept hidden, and the past won’t give up its treasures without exacting a price in blood.

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Rusch (the Retrieval Artist series) delivers a page-turning space adventure while contemplating the ethics of scientists and governments working together on future tech. Boss is a middle-aged loner who searches ancient spacecraft for historical data. Driven by the memory of her mother being lured to a mysterious station called the Room of Souls, Boss believes humanity is haunted by old science, the kind that could kill us because we don't understand it. As Boss carefully builds a crew of spacers who are mostly loners with secrets, their notions about old and new tech, and about each other, must be re-evaluated as they first dive a 5,000-year-old ship for clues and then head for the Room. Rusch's spare prose sometimes flattens the characters, but admirably suits both the adventure and the deep moral questions she raises. (Nov.)
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, romance, science fiction, and fantasy writer. She has written many novels under various names, including Kristine Grayson for romance, and Kris Nelscott for mystery. Her novels have made the bestseller lists–even in London–and have been published in fourteen countries and thirteen different languages. Her awards range from the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award to the John W. Campbell Award. She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won a Hugo award for editing and a Hugo award for fiction. Her short work has been reprinted in sixteen Year’s Best collections. She is the former editor of prestigious The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Before that, she and Dean Wesley Smith, started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a science fiction and mystery press in Eugene. She lives and works on the Oregon Coast. Visit her online at http://kriswrites.com

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1591027861
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pyr; Original edition (November 24, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 269 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781591027867
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591027867
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.03 x 0.75 x 8.97 inches

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New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award.

Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award.

She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson.

She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith.

To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com, fictionriver.com, pulphousemagazine.com).

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If you enjoy the details leading you to the punch then this book will reel you In. I ioved it.

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Great series with painfully annoying central character

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I read and overall enjoyed the whole series so obviously the writing is enough to hook me - I’m dying to know how the fleet mystery will turn out! There is much to recommend here - intriguing world-building, social commentary integrated in a thoughtful way without being heavy handed, suspenseful scenes. However/but/although I made it thus far in spite of not because of the main character Boss. Thankfully substantial portions are written from the POV of other important characters or I never would have stuck it out. Boss is excruciatingly, maddeningly anxious and controlling and the author spends whole chapters in this series painstakingly narrating Boss’s OCD experience of herself and the world in excruciatingly detailed depth. Pages and pages and paaaaggggeeeees are spent on Boss’s rumination and inner deliberations about whether it’s too dangerous or not to proceed, it really feels like listening to someone with OCD argue with themselves (for an entire chapter) on whether they’ve washed their hands enough times to leave the bathroom (with a detailed description of each of 10 episodes of hand washing). And sometimes time is spent on persnickety details that feel like they belong in a procedural manual not a sci-fi novel, for example paragraphs and paragraphs spent describing how probes are labeled and color coded and what they are labeled with before sending them out on a tense mission. I try to skim all the chapters narrated by Boss, slowing down for her very cool reflections (eg difficulty not anthropomorphizing the little probes as they trundle of bravely to do their jobs, a thought provoking description of an inescapable human tendency seamlessly woven into the action) but speed-reading past the repeated ‘hand washing’ and ‘stove checking’ before and throughout action episodes. (Full disclosure I work with OCD, have family members with OCD so maybe this is just a personal response on my part). Overall, I am delighted to have stumbled on this series (helped me through my grief finally plumbing the very bottom of Alastair Reynolds’ well of excellent sci if multi-book plot threads :) But I course anyone who is put off by the rumination-heavy first couple books to hang in there - many more engaging, less agonizing perspectives will be introduced that in my opinion carry the series, and the central mystery that ties all the books together is fascinating and tantalizing to the end (and if, like me, you have a a capacity to skim/speed read, you’ll be able to apppreciate the main character Boss’s endearing quirks without getting bogged down in her frequent painfully unhelpful descent into over-the top, unbearably circular ruminating in the middle of potentially gripping scenes.

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First let me preface this by saying that I actually like the universe that this Author has been hinting at.
That said, it immediately becomes evident that despite promising "cerebral and investigative elements" this book (I have not yet read any further in the series) is a first person narrative.

From the point of view of a character that has an incredible amount of empathic awareness of the people around her, but has compacted her own view of the world and all its wonders and horrors down to a pinprick camera obscura hole in the wall of a dark room of her own making, where her nightmares constantly play out in vivid detail, accompanied by the chorus of interdimensional angels.

This character, this archaeologist in space, will discover the wonders and horrors of ancient, now forgotten technology - and promptly ignore any thoughts of its construction, how it works on any but the most superficial plane, and what specifically went wrong when it was attempted to be replicated, despite having a first hand witness standing in front of her ready to bare her soul in an attempt to get her to understand.

Because "she's not a scientist". And to then later muse about how a different character has "knowledge that nonscientists shouldn't".

This is honestly the only reason I am giving the book as low a score as I do, because from the first plot arc onward the author has dangled the hope of learning more about this strange and forgotten technology in front of me, and every time any relevant information is about to be dropped, her main character does everything aside from sticking her fingers in her ears and screaming "La la la, I can't hear you!"

She literally chooses to completely phase out and ignore a villainous monologue plot dump for crying out loud!

So in closing, if you enjoy "cerebral and investigative elements" in your science fiction, this book is probably going to make you as angry as it did me, if you like emotionally fragile people that have rebuilt their outer shell with duct tape and super glue, and then booby trapped their own toilets for good measure, this is a five star read.

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This is a book that's actually hurt by being first person. The problem is we only know the character as "Boss" and we don't really know much else about her like what she looks like or even much more than a general idea how old she is...probably somewhere between 35-45...I think. So in my head it's hard to really see much except just sort of a fuzzy blob like when they're trying to hide someone's identity on a news show.

Her narration doesn't have a lot of personality either. There's no romance or much humor or really anything to jazz it up from just exploring these old things. And really no explanation why they're crawling around in these wrecked ships and stations in suits that can be easily compromised or why they call battleships "Dignity Ships" or really much of anything.

So because this is first person you don't really know much about the character or her world and it's not a fun enough story on its own to make it that interesting. If it hadn't been free I'd be a lot more disappointed. It's hard to believe there are 15 more novels/novellas; I can't imagine wanting to read even one more of these.

That is all.

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Well written, thoughtful, far-future story

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This is very much not a fast-paced space opera. It is a well written and thoughtful novel which explores the main character's feelings as much as the wreck of the title.

It is set so far into the future and deals with technology so speculative that any discussion of hard or soft SF is irrelevant. The idea of the technology at the heart of the story is very well developed and consistent, however. The way the main characters develop their understanding of the technology and the motivations of those involved with it, and their feelings about it and the uses it might be put to are the real substance of the plot.

Exploring wrecked space ships would require a considered and careful approach, like diving the submerged wreck of a ship in the present. And this is reflected in the prose. It develops slowly and deliberately. This is not Indiana Jones territory, but it is not tedious either. The time is not drawn out to try to keep you in suspense, but to build a detailed picture and examine the thought processes of those involved Pretty much everything makes sense, but in some cased, only after you learn something later in the book, so nothing seems too contrived.

This book is, perhaps mainly, about relationships, family, trust and loss, and examines these topics in many ways, especially loss. But although there is much sadness in the story, it ends with the characters looking forwards, with a new sense of purpose.

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An intriguing world beautifully draw

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 15, 2022

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I have thoroughly enjoyed Diving into the Wreck. The characters are well drawn and because it is a first person narrator you only have the main character's view of what she encounters which means as a reader you are constantly looking for explanations of how this reality works, came into being and where it is going.

The main story thread seems simple enough but what unravels is intriguing and because it is pinned to excellent characterisation it is convincing. The whole conceptualisation of the universe we are immersed in is quite different from anything else I have read, and it is consistent within its own rules.

Boss, the central character, is on a difficult journey from running a small business diving into wrecked ships to challenging the whole political empire that she works and lives within. She has a self awareness that is refreshing and she is an acute observer of her immediate environment, and is very aware of her team's strengths and foibles, and because her world constantly puts her life at risk and she thrives on the danger she and her companions encounter where they are understand it.

What Rusch [the author, guys] has constructed ,is a world full of intriguing questions and it is clear from the start that our understanding of it is a slow burn process as Boss struggles to come to terms with it.

I couldn't wait to get into the second book. It is rather daunting that there are 11 novels already......but it will be interesting to see how Rusch develops both Boss and the conundrum posed by the Destiny ships.

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Although some of the basic stories within this novel have been published before in short story format (mainly Asimov's iirc) they have been sufficiently smoothed over to form a consistent whole as we follow Boss's evolution to a dive team leader unconcerned with anything outside of the operation of her dives to someone who plots to destroy the Imperial monopoly on the resurgent stealth technology that would see it rule the local sector uncontestedly. I have liked the short stories I have read in the magazines but found that I wasn't as engaged with the story at this longer length - possibly because I was looking for bits I recalled from those stories but it was still quite good.

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Dive Into a Series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 8, 2019

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The first book that I've read from KKR and while it's a series of interlinked stories the universe and characters were so compelling that I just had to buy the sequel. The book swept me up and I couldn't put it down. Searching for mysterious spaceships from a lost fleet, what's not to like?

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EHMom

Beautifully crafted, intriguing space opera

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 12, 2015

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Set in a far future universe where humanity has expanded through known space and beyond, Boss is a fiercely independent explorer (diver) of space wrecks, motivated by desire for an understanding of ancient history and how humanity came to lose, and have to rediscover and reinvent, its technology. She discovers a wreck that should not be there and the exploration of the wreck sets of a chain of events that have political and social ramifications at the highest levels.

I first read the novella that this novel expands on in Asimov Science Fiction and it gripped me from the start. I am now reading all the novels in this series, as I find myself drawn into the Diving Universe. Characterisation and plot are superb, mysteries intrigue. Can't recommend the book and its author highly enough.

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