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Reed, Robert Marrow
Orbit July 5, 2001 1-84149-078-4 / 9781841490786 Paperback Very Good
A ship the size of a large planet drifts through space far into the future, setting the stage for Reed's sweeping allegory dramatizing such cosmologic al questions as the origins of the universe and the relative nature of size and time. Humans are practically immortal with the improvements of biocera mics and repairing genes, allowing Reed (Beyond the Veil of Stars), a multi ple Hugo nominee, to track the lives of the Great Ship's crew members and p assengers through millennia. The Master Captain has directed every aspect o f the ship via her implanted nexuses ever since human explorers first board ed the seemingly empty, ancient vessel, finding the enormous, lifeless ship equipped with adjustable environments that would allow them to create ocea ns and cities. The human colonists turn the ship into a luxury passenger cr uiser carrying 100 billion members of various alien species. The Master and her captains administer the journey according to plans made eons into the past, handily neutralizing any threats or disruptions until the Master myst eriously sends over 200 of her brightest captains, including her ambitious first-chair, Miocene, and the talented alien greeter Washen, on an explorat ory mission to what was thought to be the ship's solid iron core. Disaster befalls their mission, unleashing a 5,000-year course of events that will b uild a new civilization and eventually threaten the existence of the entire ship. The ship itself narrates italicized introductions to each of the boo k's five parts with thorny, theatrical language, echoing the ship's obtuse, unwieldy presence. Clumsy dialogue and melodramatic scenes render the huma
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