Pushing Ice (Revelation Space)
 

Pushing Ice

by Alastair Reynolds

2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclearpowered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach.

In accepting this mission she sets her ship and her crew on a... (read more)

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Helge M
  • Rated 4 stars

Twenty years ago, nanotech was a hot property word. Coined to refer to the technology of tiny machines the size of molecules, nanotech now is passe'.

I give you - femtotech!

Heh. I don't know if Reynolds was the first to dream up that word - a logical evolution in sf techno babble, of course - but however the word ended up in Pushing Ice, Reynolds makes good use of it and any number of other sf tropes to serve up a great adventure. Accompany Bella and Svetlana on an...

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  • ellenceleste

    ellenceleste said:

    I just started this book and I'm hooked. Am really enjoying it. If you liked this you'll love Red Thunder and Red Lightning by Varley

    posted Thursday, January 3 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
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