Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
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  • Posted December 28, 2011

    through the gates of amusing paradox

    How can a young woman's first mission of battlefield "archeology" go so wrong?

    In "Newton's Wake", Ken MacLeod takes the reader to a future history grounded in the mystery and folly of our present technological time. As with the best space opera, hard science and satire intermingle in an interesting plot to permit ideas to be made more entertaining by the characters who live them. A technological catastrophe creates a universe in which the people are recognizably human, but the settings as exotic as space itself. The work shapes up into a clash of cultures and of visions of humanity, all told within characters whose behavior is not that far removed from our own time.

    The narrative covers a great deal of ground in a few pages, yet the story never feels rushed or threadbare. The author wisely does not tell us all the details of his universe, but allows an allusion here and a reference there for the benefit of the jigsaw-loving reader. At the end, I was left pleased with the ride, but ready to return to the folly of my own reality.

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