The planet’s atmosphere is moderately toxic to humans, necessitating enclaves, or semi-encapsulated city-states, which drives Union’s political outlook. Cyteen declared its independence from Earth in 2300 CE and now serves as the capital of Union. Diving in.įounded in 2201 by a group of dissident scientists and engineers, the Cyteen star system includes the planet Cyteen and Cyteen Inner and Outer Stations. Let me see if I can narrow down the plot description from Wiki’s 18 paragraphs to a more manageable length. It won a whole bunch of awards in 1989 – Hugo Award for Best Novel: winner, SF Chronicle Award, Best Novel: winner, British Science Fiction Association Award, Best SF Novel: nomination, Locus Award, Best SF Novel: winner, and in 1998, the Locus Award, All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990: position 38. That notion holds a certain appeal, doesn’t it. It is about genetic engineering, and politics and clones, called replicas, and bossing everybody around even after you are dead. I thought it would be about a cyber teen, you know, another YA where the teenager has special powers suddenly overnight? Right? No. My Dearly Beloved downloaded it and since we have a linked Amazon account, it ended up also on my Kindle.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |