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Hull Zero Three, Greg Bear-I suggest you read it if...

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Extrasolar Angel Extrasolar Angel's picture
Hull Zero Three, Greg Bear-I suggest you read it if...
If you want to see how tortures under TITAN experiments can look like. If you want to get a epic scale vision of what it is like to exist in post-human artificial habitat. Or get the sense of paranoia and terrible mind-games post-human entities can engage in. It fits EP universe perfectly. http://www.amazon.com/Hull-Zero-Three-Greg-Bear/dp/0316072818 Never one to play it safe in his consistently inventive fiction, Bear takes the reader for a harrowing ride on a labyrinthine starship in his latest hard-SF-oriented novel. Bear’s protagonist is an amnesiac starship crew member just released from a deep hibernation state called Dreamtime. Naked, disoriented, and forced by extreme temperature and gravity fluctuations to find safety somewhere among a confusing network of passageways, the man eventually receives help from an odd assortment of fellow Dreamtime refugees. Taking stock of their surroundings, while avoiding onboard killing machines, the gang quickly realizes the starship has given them each a unique role to play, including discovering collectively why the ship has been seriously damaged and cast aside from its mission to seek out habitable worlds. Bear’s pithy, occasionally cryptic writing style perfectly captures the chaotic experiences and unsettling revelations the team endures, while putting an intriguing spin on the timeworn SF theme of interstellar planet hunting. One of Bear’s most thought-provoking and well-crafted novels to date. Overall an excellent book with very few weak moments. Had me in its grip from start to the end. It is an excellent inspiration for EP game-from scenery, ideas and questions about what is your identity. Has a couple of weak moments of course but is well worth the read. Can be easily adapted for scenario in which characters find themselves awakened on Earth post-TITAN lab or on some exoplanet laboratory. As a bonus-a youtube trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXoxX6p-WD8&feature=player_embedded
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Re: Hull Zero Three, Greg Bear-I suggest you read it if...
Unfortunately I found it too much like Pandorum, which I had seen beforehand. While I certainly couldn't predict what would happen as I was reading it (nor the various twists), the outcome fell within the range of my expectations. Otherwise it's quite a compelling read, with nothing bad about it, but I certainly think Eon was better.
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