Ghost spin

555 pages

English language

Published May 11, 2013

ISBN:
978-0-553-38494-9
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OCLC Number:
826016003

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The UN's sprawling interstellar empire is failing, and humanity's only hope of survival is the Drift: a mysterious region of space where faster-than-light travel seems possible. As mercenaries and pirates flock to the Drift, the cold war between the human-led UN and the clone-dominated Syndicates heats up. When the AI called Cohen ventures into the Drift, he dies-- allegedly by his own hand-- and his consciousness is scattered across the cosmos. Some of his ghosts are still self-aware. Some are insane. And one of them hides a secret worth killing for.

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Enjoyable, exciting, incomprehensible, and space pirates!

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Unquestionably the most exciting and fun of the Spin novels, and also the least straightforward. I didn't understand this book the first time I read it, I didn't understand it on subsequent re-reads, and I don't understand it now. If you do, please let me know?

It's about… possibility? Chaos theory & fragmentation? unity & disunity of self & identity? who you are always rests on a knife's edge? love as both you and the person you love change? colonialism, industrial extraction, & empire? and also AI-assisted space pirates in a weird FTL rift-space. It's definitely also about scifi space pirates.

I feel like Moriarty is trying to say a lot of things in this book, and I wish I knew what they were? I feel like she's very shy about saying it, and sees the need to keep our attention with all the swashbuckling space piracy?

Excellent book, love …

Subjects

  • Interstellar travel
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Fiction