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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1993: Guest of Honor; Metastasis; Black Ferry; Liberator; Rising Star; Sanctuary; Good Wishes; Touched by the Bomb; Superglue by Robert Reed; E. M. Goldman; Mark McCloskey; Linda Nagata; Michaelene Pendleton; Mary Rosenblum; Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Sarah Smith; Bruce Sterling, 1993

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Susan Stepney's Home Page SF reviews index linda nagata. 1997). (Limit of Vision.2001). Novels/Collections reviews. linda nagata. TechHeaven. Bantam. 1995.
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Extractions: Katie Kishida's husband Tom has died in a tragic accident. Yet death is not necessarily final they are both members of Forward Futures Inc, a cryotech company who preserve the dead while waiting for a cure. So Katie has Tom frozen. But Tom's sister, Senator Ilene Carson, is a prominent advocate of sustainable health care and comes out hard against expensive life extension technologies. The next thirty years are a battle as Katie struggles to find a Cure, and Ilene works to make that technology illegal. Usually stories of cryonics are from the point of view of the frozen one waking up in a vastly altered world. But here we get a thoughtful look from the point of view of those left behind when one family member is dead but not gone while Tom lies frozen, how can Katie get on with her own life? The beginning, with its description of the freezing process, and the conclusion move along at a brisk pace. The middle third of the book as Katie lives through decades herself in a kind of suspended animation is necessarily rather episodic, and I found it a little slow. That is because I would have liked more exploration of the actual nanotechnology being developed as the Cure, but that happens only in the background; it is Katie's strangely frozen life that is the foreground. But I did like the way the gradually developing tech is integrated into the story the VR, the remotes, the orbitals. (And Nagata has great term for that contrast to Virtual Reality which we sometimes find ourselves calling 'Real' Reality here it is
Review | Limit Of Vision By Linda Nagata
Reviewed by Claude Lalumière. In 1995, linda nagata's first novel, The BohrMaker, was released. It earned her the Locus Award for best first novel.
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Extractions: Limit of Vision by Linda Nagata Published by Tor 349 pages, 2001 ISBN: 0312876882 Buy it online Limited Visions In 1995, Linda Nagata's first novel, The Bohr Maker , was released. It earned her the Locus Award for best first novel. I found much to admire about this book, especially the wild nanotechnological speculations, but I was also disappointed by its structure, which seemed to sabotage the story by insisting on a strict chronological telling of the events while the text screamed for something different. It was a promising debut. Although I was curious to see where this new talent was going, I never got around to reading her next three novels, all of which were set in the same world as The Bohr Maker Limit of Vision , Nagata's fifth novel, seemed like a good place to check in again with this author's work: not only was it the first book with her new publisher, Tor, but it was also a fresh creation totally unrelated to her previous works. Several decades from now, Virgil Copeland, Randall Panwar and Gabrielle Villanti make up a team of young, cutting-edge biotech scientists. They study the evolution of an artificial life form, the L
Linda Nagata - Author Information, Books, And News
logo linda nagata. Bibliography Fiction Books by linda nagata. BooksMemory (©2003) 464 pp. Science Fiction Amazon US HC Amazon
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Extractions: US Hardcover is scheduled for release : April 2003 Deception Well Science Fiction Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Limit of Vision (©2001) 352 pp. Science Fiction Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Vast Science Fiction Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB The BOHR Maker Science Fiction Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Tech Heaven (©1995) 357 pp. Science Fiction Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Convention and Personal Appearances Please let us know if you find a scheduled Convention appearance by Linda Nagata.
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
linda nagata is the awardwinning author of four hard science fictionnovels, including the ultra-high-tech, far-future adventure Vast.
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Extractions: Linda Nagata is the award-winning author of four hard science fiction novels, including the ultra-high-tech, far-future adventure Vast. Her next book, Limit of Vision, is scheduled to be published by Tor Books in March 2001. Originally from California, she had the good fortune to grow up in Hawaii, and now lives on the island of Maui with her husband and two children. She maintains a website at http://www.maui.net/~nagata/
SciFan: Writer: Linda Nagata (bibliography, Books, Series, Web Links)
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SciFan: Books: Vast By Linda Nagata (from Our Database Of Fantasy & SF Novels, A
Vast, by linda nagata, Novel, first publication in September 1998. Buy Vastby linda nagata, SciFan is run by hobbyists, on our spare time and money.
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Hooks, Nets & Time - A Novelette By Linda Nagata
But he soon finds out that the owner has other uses for the shark station An SFnovelette by linda nagata. Hooks, Nets and Time a novelette by linda nagata
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Extractions: a novelette by Linda Nagata T he ocean ran through his dreams. The panting breath of the wavelets as they rose and fell against the pylons became his own breath, a slow, deep rhythm in his lungs that forced him to run. His footfalls reverberated against the black plastic photovoltaic field that doubled as a deck: a square track five kilometers long, encompassing the perimeter of the shark pen. Starlight glinted off the water; glistened in the film of sweat that coated his pumping arms. The rubber soles of his running shoes beat out an ancient cursorial rhythm, a telling vibration transmitted through the deck to the perforated steel walls of the shark pen and then to the coral foundations of the station some twelve fathoms below. Crippled Tiburon would be lurking there near the bottom, listening, measuring the vibrations in his ancient, clever mind, waiting for the hour when his fins had fully regrown and his strength was at once new...and old. A thin wail twisted through the humid night. Tiburon heard it in the depths and thrashed his powerful tail. The wail grew into a distant howl of terror. A faint splash.
Vast By Linda Nagata, A Science Fiction Book
Denver Science Fiction Fantasy Book Club. SCIENCE FICTION BOOK SELECTION VASTby linda nagata, Vast (1998). This is hard SF book featuring nanotechnology.
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Extractions: Aboard Null Boundary, a giant starship thousands of years old, four survivors of an ancient alien war are making a desperate journey: Lot, son of a fiery prophet and carrier of an insidious virus that spreads a cult like religious mania among those it infects; Urban, Lot's boyhood friend from the city of Silk, and a man in search of challenge and adventure; Clemantine, cast adrift when her world was destroyed, and yearning for revenge; and Nikko, sometimes a living man, but always the ship's disembodied mind. They are bound for unknown territory. Ahead of them loom vast, lightless clouds of dust and gas where stars are born, and where the alien Chenzeme are believed to live. The Chenzeme are an enigmatic race whose automated warships have ravaged the living worlds of the Galaxy's Orion arm for millions of years. But why? Null Boundary's crew is driven to find out - though in their quest to discover the source of the Chenzeme, they must also explore the terrible truth of their own past, the meaning of revenge, and the price each one of them is willing to pay for survival.
Linda Nagata, Vast
linda nagata, Vast (Bantam, 1998). Those unfamiliar with science thebetter. Here linda nagata does her readers proud. The starship
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Extractions: Those unfamiliar with science fiction or who know it only through its non-print media manifestations invariably judge it as a genre that deals exclusively with events of the future. However erroneous this judgement may be, such persons will nevertheless not be disappointed with Linda Nagata's novel Vast , for upon opening it the reader is immediately in the far, far future, more than 30 million years beyond the present. Notwithstanding such an awesome distance in time, the author relies strictly on a conservative interpretation of the laws of the universe so that, for example, there is no faster-than-light technology, and there is a commensurate communication delay with increasing spatial distance. Such narrative disciplines place the novel firmly in the sub-genre category of "hard" SF. Unsurprisingly, the paradigmatic technology of the 20th century (the digital encoding of information) is long superseded. Nanotechnology devices are now ubiquitous, some being microscopic (in people's bloodstream, for example) and others large enough to be analogous to the biological cell in that, like these cells they self-assemble to form larger structures (animals in the case of biological cells, but here, with nanotech, starships). People this far in future history must of course be completely different from any humans today. And this poses a problem for writers of far future SF in that their characters must have a "strangeness" about them in order to be credible and yet must not be so different as to appear alien/non-human and therefore incomprehensible. In
Linda Nagata - Bibliography
linda nagata. This is only a LISTING of the titles written by thisauthor, to check for availability and/or price of a title, click
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Fantastica Review: Limit Of Vision, By Linda Nagata
Limit of Vision, by linda nagataLimit of Vision by linda nagata.Review by Eva WojcikObert. ½. As Virgil soared past sedimentary
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Extractions: by Linda Nagata Review by Eva Wojcik-Obert As Virgil soared past sedimentary layers he was amazed again at the LoVs versatility, at the speed with which they changed and he could see only one explanation for it: Somehow the LoVs must have learned to deliberately reprogram their descendants genetic structure. When I first got wind of Linda Nagatas futuristic Limit of Vision, I nearly chalked it up as a take-off on Joan Slonczewskis sweet Brain Plague due to the fact that both novels deal with intelligent life forms capable of living within a human brain, enhancing human abilities and creative collaboration. To be honest I figured that if Limit of Vision proved to be a Brain Plague rip-off, Id have great fun trashing it as such. Such was the limit of my vision. Nagatas novel proves its individuality admirably, despite the similar ethical issues both books explore, concerning the rights of alien life forms. If you enjoyed Brain Plague
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Limit of Vision, by linda nagataINTERVIEW WITH linda nagata. linda nagata's latestnovel, Limit of Vision, was released as a Tor hardcover in March 2001.
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Extractions: Linda Nagata Linda Nagata's latest novel, Limit of Vision , was released as a Tor hardcover in March 2001. Eva and I had the chance to interview her. Mervius : Do you think that technology will change our society irrevocably? If so, in what ways? Linda Nagata : This feels like a trick question, one that makes me squint and wonder: What are you really asking? Can technology not change society? Can societies cease to change? I don't think so. Can change be undone? Doesn't seem likely. The world is too complex for that. My personal thought experiments on technology and society are my books, but these are not predictions, just speculations.
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Vast; Linda Nagata
Vast. linda nagata. Synopsis Dethroned cult leader Lot Apollinario and his companionshave left the skycity of Silk with a mission. Vast. linda nagata. Save Now!
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Extractions: Dethroned cult leader Lot Apollinario and his companions have left the sky-city of Silk with a mission. They aim to find the Chenzemethe mysterious race that annihilated most sentient life in the galaxy many thousands of millennia agowhose automated weapons still destroy all they meet. Yet life beyond the known fringes of "civilized" space is a strange and wild thing, and the heroes are unprepared for the wondersand horrorsthat wait in the vastness. Save up to - Order online from Amazon.com
Tech-Heaven, Linda Nagata
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TECH-HEAVEN By Linda Nagata
TECHHEAVEN. by linda nagata. T Tech-Heaven %A linda nagata %C New York %D November1995 %I Bantam Spectra %O paperback, US$4.99 %G ISBN 0-553-56926-0 %P 368pp
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Extractions: Bantam Spectra, ISBN 0-553-56926-0, 1995, 368pp, US$4.99 This is Nagata's second novel, and it is set in a more accessible future than her first (THE BOHR MAKER)at least for one thread. In TECH-HEAVEN, the story revolves around cryonic suspension: the freezing of the dead in the hopes of reviving them when a cure for their disease or injury is found. Nagata takes the current discussion of this subject and uses it for a fairly straightforward future thriller sort of novel. This thread does not get much beyond the questions being asked already: Is it fair to spend millions to preserve the dead rather than to improve the lot of the living? What about the legal issues of rights and property? Is a frozen person really dead? It's the last question than Nagata expands on in her other thread, which follows the "soul" of the main character's husband, who has been frozen. Some may find this intriguing, but I found it unconvincing and difficult to follow. (Maybe the two go hand in hand.) The main plot is full of convenient characters and familiar concepts. For example, one powerful member of the main character's family is opposed to cryogenics, giving Nagata a ready-made conflict. Nanotechnology is the solution to the problems of thawing people out, as it seems to be to every problem these days, and so on. It's not completely predictable, but it's not full of a lot of surprises either. While this will undoubtedly be of interest to someone who already have an interest in cryogenics, I can't say that it did much for me.
The Transhuman Bookstore * Deception Well By Linda Nagata
The Transhuman Bookstore sm Presents. Deception Well by linda nagata.Cover Art Jupiter Apolinario is a charismatic leader in a distant
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Extractions: J upiter Apolinario is a charismatic leader in a distant future where human civilizations are divided by vast gulfs of space and time. Eluding the ancient and deadly robotic ships of a long-vanished alien race, Jupiter has brought his army of followers to the world of Deception Well. The planet is rumored to seethe with alien plagues the fallout of an ancient war fought on the nanotechnological scale. Jupiter has promised his people an ecstatic communion if they will follow him to the surface, but that plan is thwarted by the people of Silk, a city perched on a space elevator, 200 miles above the Well. In the confusion of battle Jupiter disappears, leaving behind his army, and his son, Lot, who is driven to uncover both the truth behind his father's promises, and the meaning of his heritage. "...[Lot] does find his answers, which open out into speculations on the transformation of humanity by technology, the slow-grinding machinery of evolution, and on the role (and limitations) of consciousness in that process. This payoff puts Deception Well firmly in the company of Stapledon, Benford, Bear, McAuley, and Niven..." (Locus) "What Lot learns is what we learn. By the time the last piece is in place, other readers may feel, as I did, that this story of love coerced, lost and (possibly) redeemed could not be told to greater effect with any other method." (New York Times Book Review)
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