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A review by tome15
Mindstar Rising by Peter F. Hamilton
5.0
Hamilton, Peter F. Mindstar Rising. 1993. Greg Mandel No. 1. Tor, 1997.
Peter F. Hamilton is best known for his sprawling, epic far-future space operas, but in the early Greg Mandel series he showed that he could write an effective 400-page near-future novel as well. In Mindstar, we learn that much of coastal England has been flooded by global warming, wreaking the expected havoc on the English and world economies. England has also recently been at war with Turkey, and our hero, Greg Mandel, is one of its black-ops veterans. He has been given a bio-engineered gland that turns him into a human lie-detector. It will probably give him cancer in the long run, but in the meantime, it makes him a superb private investigator. He is just the guy to investigate high-tech corporate espionage in your orbital factory. It is surprising how little the book has dated in seventeen years. Recommended. Note: In case you cannot take Hamilton in less than 800-page doses, the first two novels in the series have been published as The Mandel Files, Volume 1.
Peter F. Hamilton is best known for his sprawling, epic far-future space operas, but in the early Greg Mandel series he showed that he could write an effective 400-page near-future novel as well. In Mindstar, we learn that much of coastal England has been flooded by global warming, wreaking the expected havoc on the English and world economies. England has also recently been at war with Turkey, and our hero, Greg Mandel, is one of its black-ops veterans. He has been given a bio-engineered gland that turns him into a human lie-detector. It will probably give him cancer in the long run, but in the meantime, it makes him a superb private investigator. He is just the guy to investigate high-tech corporate espionage in your orbital factory. It is surprising how little the book has dated in seventeen years. Recommended. Note: In case you cannot take Hamilton in less than 800-page doses, the first two novels in the series have been published as The Mandel Files, Volume 1.