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A review by eviljosh
Diving into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
3.0
This is close to a hard sci-fi book. It is an interesting cross between [a:Alastair Reynolds|51204|Alastair Reynolds|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1244781695p2/51204.jpg]' [b:Revelation Space|89187|Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)|Alastair Reynolds|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1306807253s/89187.jpg|219037] series and [a:Jack McDevitt|73812|Jack McDevitt|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1225722326p2/73812.jpg]'s Alex Benedict novels. While good, it's more superficial than either of those works, which leaves a bit to be desired.
There are tons of old wrecks of space ships and stations around, and "divers" to exploring them, sometimes for money, sometimes for history, and sometimes just for the thrill. Over the past 5,000 years, humanity has created all manner of dangerous technologies, and then lost or forgotten most of them.
One of these that humanity is eager to get back is true stealth technology, which is thought to rely on multidimensional drives of some sort, taking the ship out of phase with normal space or out of our universe entirely.
Not surprisingly, exploring wrecks that have such tech on board often result in disappearances or strange occurrences. The main character, who we know relatively little about, finds a wreck by chance, where no such ship should be able to be (since it lacked the drive technology to make it that far in the 5,000 years since it was built), and assembles a team to dive it with her.
They rapidly begin to realize that something strange is on board, and a variety of stealth tech adventures ensue. All in all, this is a somewhat dark book, with believable though lightly sketched world building and characters. It's a good, fast read, but not as fulfilling as the reader may like.
There are tons of old wrecks of space ships and stations around, and "divers" to exploring them, sometimes for money, sometimes for history, and sometimes just for the thrill. Over the past 5,000 years, humanity has created all manner of dangerous technologies, and then lost or forgotten most of them.
One of these that humanity is eager to get back is true stealth technology, which is thought to rely on multidimensional drives of some sort, taking the ship out of phase with normal space or out of our universe entirely.
Not surprisingly, exploring wrecks that have such tech on board often result in disappearances or strange occurrences. The main character, who we know relatively little about, finds a wreck by chance, where no such ship should be able to be (since it lacked the drive technology to make it that far in the 5,000 years since it was built), and assembles a team to dive it with her.
They rapidly begin to realize that something strange is on board, and a variety of stealth tech adventures ensue. All in all, this is a somewhat dark book, with believable though lightly sketched world building and characters. It's a good, fast read, but not as fulfilling as the reader may like.