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A review by shawnpconroy
Mindstar Rising by Peter F. Hamilton
4.0
"The Psychic Detective"
Would you listen to Mindstar Rising again? Why?
Yes. It's a good story. Industrial espionage and attempted murder (in a way) in a world dealing with climate change and the fall of a fascist political party. It was a solid, entertaining read.
Any additional comments?
In this story, set several decades in our future, Hamilton and fused some science fiction technology with fantasy-based intuition and empathic abilities raised to new height with an experimental program. The product is now a private eye contracted to solve a simple case. Of course, it's not so simple.
This is not nearly so epic in scale has Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga or Void trilogy. And the novel very knowingly and explicitly violates some rules of science as we know them so far as well as postulating possibilities.
A good read.
Would you listen to Mindstar Rising again? Why?
Yes. It's a good story. Industrial espionage and attempted murder (in a way) in a world dealing with climate change and the fall of a fascist political party. It was a solid, entertaining read.
Any additional comments?
In this story, set several decades in our future, Hamilton and fused some science fiction technology with fantasy-based intuition and empathic abilities raised to new height with an experimental program. The product is now a private eye contracted to solve a simple case. Of course, it's not so simple.
This is not nearly so epic in scale has Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga or Void trilogy. And the novel very knowingly and explicitly violates some rules of science as we know them so far as well as postulating possibilities.
A good read.