Pushing Ice Audiobook
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Review #1
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Alastair Reynolds is probably the most imaginative hard sci-fi author of the world. His concepts are mind blowing. Will keep reading the author, for sure. Hope he comes back to PI world.
Review #3
Audiobook Pushing Ice by Cris Dukehart
Alastair Reynold’s “Pushing” Ice is pushing much more than ice. This is a book which dares to push the boundaries of science fiction to their fracture point and then push some more. All you have been asking science fiction writers to deliver but have found yourself let down too many times to count, is encapsulated in this novel.
Does this sound like a paean? Oh, but it is. Seldom has this reviewer felt fuller after 500 pages of hard science fiction than this outstanding time dilation masterpiece. If you liked Poul Anderson’s classic “Tau Zero” one-way express into the future, you are going to love Reynold’s trek which feature a much bigger vehicle and much better fleshed out characters.
Apart from the big science fiction idea, there is also a big feud in Pushing Ice between two of the strongest females in science fiction, Bella Lind and Svetlana Barseghian, friends and foes for subjective millennia. Around them, there exists a satisfying entourage of humans, residents of the moon Janus and aliens of a not-your-bipedal type.
Reynolds even tries to come up with plausible solutions for the 2057 level of technology. So, his heroes don’t look at tablets but possess a quasi-organic medium of storage and communication called flexi – he even does the decent thing and spares us the mumbo jumbo of how it “works”. Same thing applies to all his mid 21st century imagined technologies. Even his far out future tech sounds balanced and well thought.
Finally, mysteries unfold and climaxes happen in almost every other page in Pushing Ice. This is a book with cliffhangers galore, which somehow, Alastair Reynolds resolves without, even for once, insulting the reader’s intelligence with cheap machina dei. On the contrary, everything in his universe is more of a problem than a wonder and even energy (something that seems inexplicably inexhaustible in so much SF of today) is very hard to tap.
Review #4
Audio Pushing Ice narrated by Cris Dukehart
The story starts off in the not too distant future with the crew of a ship that mines comets. When the Saturnian moon, Janus, suddenly pulls out of orbit around Saturn and starts heading for interstellar space it is apparent that it is not a moon at all but a long dormant alien artifact. The mining crew are the only ones in a position to try and intercept the fleeing ship and getting some sort of answers.
There is a problem. Fuel is tight but the business consortium back home assures them that there is enough and that a rescue operation will be mounted. The company wants them to make the trip no matter what because their belief that the information beamed back will make them all rich. They are so greedy that they are willing to lie and sacrifice the crew making the trip: there is not enough fuel.
The two main protagonists of the story are the captain and the chief engineer, both women, who are best friends. The engineer warns the captain that things are amiss and the captain is inclined to believe the company. This has tragic consequences. They cannot get back. Their only hope for survival is to try and hitch a ride on Janus and ride it to wherever it goes, tapping the “moon” itself for resources and energy. This causes a hateful rift between the two friends and polarizes the crew.
Einsteinian time dilation enters the story in a big way here. When the moon gets to Spica, only a dozen years have passed for the crew but several hundred have passed back home. Everything familiar is long gone but the point is moot because the moon does not stop. It enters a gigantic artifact which captures it and further accelerates it. They have been caught in a “cosmic zoo” and not all of the other inhabitants are friendly. Worse, its hard to tell which ones are friendly.
The added acceleration of their captivity leads to more time dilation. Its not clear how much except that it is A LOT. This becomes apparent when they do get some information from more than 18000 years into their own perceived future (and this proves to already be ancient).
This is a story about personality struggles, alien contact and space travel but mostly it is a story about the vastness of space and time. It is well written and holds the interest but the epilog is unsatisfying and does not tie in well with the prolog. Still, it was a good read.
Review #5
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I’m not sure who introduced me to Alastair Reynold’s works some years ago but I’m grateful. His particular type of hard science fiction is quite appealing. This particular story is one of my favorites. I’ve read this novel three times, and each time enjoyed it more than before. It’s an extraordinary tale, inhabited by people we can easily recognize (in terms of human personality differences) and is an entrancing read.
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