Clarke County Space edition by Allen Steele Literature Fiction eBooks
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The future of an orbiting space colony is threatened by a fugitive and the assassin on her trail in this science fiction adventure from three-time Hugo Award winner Allen Steele
Skycorp has always expected the near-Earth space colony Clarke County to serve as a cash cow, bringing the corporate behemoth a substantial return on its investment through food production and tourism. Now that the Church of Elvis is planning a major revival meeting on the colony, the execs anticipate that the devout and the curious alike will be rocketing to Clarke County in droves. Its residents, however, would prefer to be left alone, and there has even been some dangerous talk of freedom and independence from Earth.
It’s Sheriff John Bigthorn’s job to keep the peace on the colony, but his work may prove more difficult than usual in the upcoming days—especially following the unexpected arrival of a frightened young woman carrying money and important data she’s stolen from her gangster ex-boyfriend. With an ice-cold assassin called the Golem on the runaway’s tail, the holy “Living Elvis” stirring up the faithful, and revolution in the wind, Bigthorn will have to lay off the peyote and stay particularly sharp if he hopes to prevent total chaos and bloodshed . . . and perhaps even save his floating artificial world.
Skycorp has always expected the near-Earth space colony Clarke County to serve as a cash cow, bringing the corporate behemoth a substantial return on its investment through food production and tourism. Now that the Church of Elvis is planning a major revival meeting on the colony, the execs anticipate that the devout and the curious alike will be rocketing to Clarke County in droves. Its residents, however, would prefer to be left alone, and there has even been some dangerous talk of freedom and independence from Earth.
It’s Sheriff John Bigthorn’s job to keep the peace on the colony, but his work may prove more difficult than usual in the upcoming days—especially following the unexpected arrival of a frightened young woman carrying money and important data she’s stolen from her gangster ex-boyfriend. With an ice-cold assassin called the Golem on the runaway’s tail, the holy “Living Elvis” stirring up the faithful, and revolution in the wind, Bigthorn will have to lay off the peyote and stay particularly sharp if he hopes to prevent total chaos and bloodshed . . . and perhaps even save his floating artificial world.
Clarke County Space edition by Allen Steele Literature Fiction eBooks
4 1/2 stars. Another early book of Steele's being re-released. The near space series of books are written as complete stories, so they can be read out of order. Characters don't necessarily follow book to book. This book focuses on the maturing space colony growing pains, building frustrations with Earth corporate controls, and an ill-equipped police force trying to deal with a mob assassin. Excellent plot twists as police chief, John Bigthorn, copes with the killing chaos the assassin causes.Product details
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Clarke County Space edition by Allen Steele Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
There's a killer loose in the L5 habitat in geosynchronous orbit above Earth. Clarke County Sheriff John Bighorn is trying to find who it is while protecting the target. This all goes on against a background of a convention by the Church of Elvis and grumbling about secession.
Bighorn has his own problems, fortold by his sweat lodge vision of Coyote, who indicated a threat from the stars. Coyote is a trickster who lies like a politician, but there's always some truth at the basis of what he says, and this time is no different.
Compared to Robert Heinlein, this story does definitely do the trick although it lacks Heinlein's humor. That may be a good thing for a lot of readers but I was always a sucker for Heinlein's light touch, however grim proceedings got.
But the rest of the style seems to be there...big scope, focus on the people in jeopardy, a great setting, and a lot of action.
Clarke County is an L5 habitat. They were first proposed by Gerard K. O'Neill back in the 1970's or so, gigantic 20-mile-long inhabited rolling tubes, in permanent space orbit leading or following the moon. Living on the interior surface of these tubes would be people in cities and on farms, protected from cosmic rays by an adjacent barrier of lunar slag left over from the construction phase. It was a galvanizing vision providing an alternative to planets with their deep gravity wells, farmers able to look up and across the interior at a city on the opposite surface or a sailboat on a lake.
Science fiction writers cheerfully adopted the idea, offering up tales of future cities, religious communities, animal parks, even scientific preserves for resurrected dinosaurs. The public ate it up. But for the fickle public, that interest faded after several years although the keepers of the faith never forgot. Author Allen Steele is obviously one of them.
And it's too bad because central to Gerard's vision was being able to build the L5 habitats with current technology. ("Space colonies" sounds better, but it never caught on; understandbaly bad vibes from the Third World.)
Excellent read.
Steele does a wonderful job with details of the logistics, economics, and demographics of Clarke County, a recreational world in space. Writing style is witty and one must dig through that to get to the stories. The omniscient characters are annoying and distract from the scifi whodunit, which I think is the point? Some say that it ends poorly, but I wouldn't know because I never got there. Boring in the middle and I've got better things to do than spend time in that dimension. This two star rating is going downhill from the last 3 star rating of book #1; thus, I'm thinking that this "Near Space" series is done for me.
Loved it! Looking forward to reading other books in the series.
Great early work by Allen Steele. While some of it has dated, the general story is still good - and love the nice tributes to Arthur C Clarke amongst others.
Well, "light" besides the violence, though it is not gratuitous. Otherwise an amusing tale that has a little bit of everything in the hard-science vein, as well as bits of contemporary culture. Take it for what it is (and not for what it could be) and you'll be glad you read it. I enjoyed it from the beginning to the end, which included a nice twist on another old scifi theme.
I enjoyed the reading of this book, but could not see it as a 5 star read. It is very dated. Mr Steele takes his chances writing some details about technology. Unfortunately, he is often too ambitious with the space development, and under estimates the speed of information technology advancement.
4 1/2 stars. Another early book of Steele's being re-released. The near space series of books are written as complete stories, so they can be read out of order. Characters don't necessarily follow book to book. This book focuses on the maturing space colony growing pains, building frustrations with Earth corporate controls, and an ill-equipped police force trying to deal with a mob assassin. Excellent plot twists as police chief, John Bigthorn, copes with the killing chaos the assassin causes.
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