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Scardown

Tekijä: Elizabeth Bear

Muut tekijät: Paul Youll (Kansikuvataiteilija)

Sarjat: Jenny Casey (2)

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Jenny Casey was not born for this mission. She was modified for it. The year is 2062, and after years on the run, Jenny Casey is back in the Canadian armed forces. Those who were once her enemies are now her allies, and at fifty, she's been handpicked for the most important mission of her life - a mission for which her artificially reconstructed body is perfectly suited. With the earth capable of sustaining life for just another century, Jenny - as pilot of the starship Montreal - must discover brave new worlds. And with time running out, she must succeed where others have failed. Now Jenny is caught in a desperate battle where old resentments become bitter betrayals and justice takes the cruelest forms of vengeance. With the help of a brilliant AI, an ex-crime lord, and the man she loves, Jenny may just get her chance to save the world. If it doesn't come to an end first . . .… (lisätietoja)
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Very good!
  JohnLavik | Mar 29, 2020 |
Scardown takes off pretty much the moment Hammered ended. Jenny Casey has agreed to go back to Canada, have some pilot training and have her "wet-ware" up-graded with "new nanites", or a new version of nanites. This is supposed to take care of her increasing pain, her increasing neurological symptoms, and more. Thus the name Scardown. Down with the scars!

With the return of many of the characters from the last novel, Jenny and Gabriel begin a complicated relationship, Elspeth is still in the picture, the artificial intelligence known as Richard or Dick (Feynman - there was a REAL genious with this name! the character and the AI is based on this person) is in a few different system and growing ever larger and stronger. Valens - the slightly sinister military official....it's debatable what his real plans are, but he's pushing for starship travel, more than one starship to colonise other planets. He sees a future that many don't want to acknowledge.

With a return of a few of the characters in Hammered, Scardown continues the story of Jenny, Valens and the machinations of the governments. There are plots and more plots. It's not always clear if who the bad guy is, if indeed there really is a bad guy. Valens is at his enigmatic possible evil best - and yet maybe he isn't quite as he seems. The AI, Richard is growing ever stronger and with more "personality".

There is quite a bit going on in this middle book - while it's a continuation of the plots from the first leading to the ending, it's quite loaded with plots and intricate subplots of its own. New characters are introduced and more is found out about the characters already introduced. Jenny's wetware has been upgraded and she's doing her end, learning how to pilot the starship while trying to keep the AI's complete possiblities secret from the government and Valens.

Bear continues to write a book full of characters and subplots - there is so much going on here, that with a less capable author it could have fallen apart. But Bear seems to be a master at juggling numerous storylines and plots, the characters all have their own personalities and flaws. More comes to light about Jenny's past, the same with some of the other characters. The narration style remains masterful, I enjoy the way she switches between Jenny Casey's first person narrative to the third person narrative of the other characters.

The book steadily climbs toward a tragic incident that has far-reaching consequences. I can't express enough just how much I enjoyed this novel. It is one of my favorite SciFi series has a mix of political intrigue, personal relationships and mystery, and science fiction storytelling that satisfies a craving I wasn't even aware that I had for this type of novel. From the characters, to the dialogues, to the plots and subplots, to the political examples to the scientific inventiveness - this is a wonderful mixup of people and stories. Definitely a book, and series that I will re-read and enjoy just as much the second and third time around.

The third and final book is Worldwired and there is quite a story coming up in it. I loved it and I would love to read more in Jenny Casey's storyline if Elizabeth Bear would write about it ( )
  Mardel | Jun 12, 2012 |
Jun11:

Characters: The new focus on the kids makes up for some of the loss of characters from the first book. Jenny is a likable main, but Richard is of course the star of the show. And I have a soft spot for Fred.

Plot: Fairly weak here. I mean, it's not really a driving force. Kind-of a future cold-war feel.

Style: Gets a little more macro with world views etc. Still got me hooked and reading. Worth it if you enjoy Cyberpunk at all. ( )
  Isamoor | Jun 22, 2011 |
(Amy) I liked Hammered when I read it, but in the months since then my memory of it has retained mostly the crapsack world elements and not the parts of it that I liked, which has made me less quick to pick up Scardown than I might have been. Still, it came to the top of the reading pile and I did not postpone it, and whaddaya know, it may not quite be a crapsack world after all. Which is to say, yeah, the world kinda sucks, but the people we see are not necessarily resigned to the inevitability of same, and indeed are going to some quite heroic lengths to uncrappify the world (or, failing that, to get the hell outta Dodge and start over).

...I actually have quite a few specifics for this book that might be worth elaborating on, but all of them would be spoilers for the first one, and I do generally try to steer clear of that. I shall content myself with being vague, and hope that's good enough: The handling of nascent AI by key characters is done very well, better than most people (characters or authors either one) seem to manage (as an aside, if I'd been Skynet and the very first thing that happened to me upon my attainment of consciousness is that people tried to kill me, I'd've nuked the bastards, too). The nanotech is skillfully integrated into the story in such a way that even if I didn't already know as much, I'd be able to peg this author as someone who Knows Her Genre. The people seem real, which is a thing I've noticed in pretty much all of Bear's work that I've encountered, and also do not appear either to be all like one another or to have been selected from a list of Minorities We Must Include, which is a line that must be difficult to walk, given how many authors fall quite hard onto one side or the other of it.

Basically, it's a damn good story, and I liked it considerably more than the first one, and I have fairly high hopes that the upward trend will continue in the concluding volume of the trilogy. I'll let you know in a few weeks - I don't plan to wait as long before carrying on, this time.
( http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/zenos-library/2009/07/scardown_elizabeth_bear... ) ( )
  libraryofus | Dec 29, 2009 |
Good story, but this book tried to pack way too much in. There are just too many plots and sub-plots. ( )
  gregandlarry | Oct 11, 2008 |
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Jenny Casey was not born for this mission. She was modified for it. The year is 2062, and after years on the run, Jenny Casey is back in the Canadian armed forces. Those who were once her enemies are now her allies, and at fifty, she's been handpicked for the most important mission of her life - a mission for which her artificially reconstructed body is perfectly suited. With the earth capable of sustaining life for just another century, Jenny - as pilot of the starship Montreal - must discover brave new worlds. And with time running out, she must succeed where others have failed. Now Jenny is caught in a desperate battle where old resentments become bitter betrayals and justice takes the cruelest forms of vengeance. With the help of a brilliant AI, an ex-crime lord, and the man she loves, Jenny may just get her chance to save the world. If it doesn't come to an end first . . .

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