Sun of Suns
Jul 2007 · Virga Book 1 · Macmillan + ORM
4.2star
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In Karl Schroeder's sci-fi thriller, Hayden Griffin has come to the city of Rush with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for his parents' deaths.
It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity.
Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances . . .
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity.
Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances . . .
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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4.2
26 reviews
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February 7, 2013
I adore the idea of a zero-gravity environment, and Schroeder conceives a magnificent bit of engineering to realize it. He has peopled it with characters both likable and non. (And the non-likeable ones get a more thorough and sympathetic treatment in the sequels.) If you liked Ringworld and similar Big Idea books, you will almost certainly like this one.
Patrick Adams (Zero)
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January 1, 2017
The future history is standard fare, but the pacing and storyline are kept in motion. The characterizations are a bit blnd, but livable.
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May 3, 2012
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KARL SCHROEDER lives in Toronto, Ontario
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