![]() ![]() ![]() For another, he follows in the tradition of Patrick O'Brian by avoiding much discursion about the time period in which he's writing. Harrison is the writer who other writers whose books you've tried but failed to finish wish they wrote like. However, reader be warned : the novel is much less straightforward than that set-up sounds. ![]() Harrison follows a series of questions : Where are the three main characters headed? What does the Shrander want? What is the Tract and what can we do with it? Add in the Kefahuchi Tract, a naked singularity that trails across space, defying attempts to comprehend its nature and vastness, and you've got the basic elements of the tale. Seria and Ed have their own encounters with the creature, which is a Shrander. The basic plotlines of this audacious SF novel are easy enough to explain: in 1999, Michael Kearney and his colleague Brian Tate are physicists, but Kearney is also a serial killer, trying to hold of a creature with horse skull for head, from which he stole an odd pair of dice meanwhile in 2400, on a planet mankind has reached thanks to the paradigm-changing Kearney-Tate equations, Seria Mau Genlicher has had herself engineered into a virtual machine so she can pilot a K-ship, a decision she regrets, and Ed Chianese is an ex-pilot who spends all his time immersed in a noir world of virtual reality and running from the the loan-sharking Cray sisters. ![]()
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