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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Ganymede Club by Charles Sheffield The Ganymede Club — Charles Sheffield. Click on any of the links above to see more books like this one. EDITIONS. First Edition Tor Mass Market Paperback ISBN: 0812544609 ISBN13: 9780812544602. FictionDB is committed to providing the best possible fiction reference information. If you have any issues with the site, please don't hesitate to contact us. More about us. Popular Features. Contact & Support. Keep in Touch. Find us on social media. FictionDB © 2021. All Rights Reserved. This page may contain affiliate links and advertising. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. See the full disclosure. ISBN 13: 9780312856625. The author of Cold As Ice delivers a tale about the survivors of a war that kills half the human race, makes half of Earth uninhabitable, and leads to strange discoveries. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Charles Sheffield (1935-2002) was a mathematician and theoretical physicist by training. His doctoral work was on Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Dr. Sheffield worked as chief scientist for the Earth Satellite Corporation, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that specializes in the analysis of data gathered from space. The author of many science fiction novels, including "Cold as Ice" and "The Ganymede Club" from Tor, Sheffield lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, author Nancy Kress. From Publishers Weekly : Sheffield returns to the future of Cold as Ice, here using the aftermath of the solar system-wide Great War of 2067 as backdrop for a science- fiction mystery. Lola Belman is a haldane: she uses a mixture of computer technology and drugs to treat clients' psychological problems. She lives on, or rather in, the Jovian moon Ganymede with her precocious teenage brother, Spook, who is just beginning to make a name for himself on the cyberspace Puzzle Network. Spook soon meets another teenage Master of the Net (seen in Cold as Ice): Megachirops, or Bat, a fat, poorly socialized but brilliant hacker. The mystery at first concerns Lola's client Bryce Sonnenberg, who has memories of places he has never been and whose account of himself and his family differs markedly from what Lola finds in the census records. But more is involved, and soon not only Bryce but also Lola, Spook and Bat are in danger. The characters, generally interesting and likable, credibly use their various skills to save themselves and unravel level after level of secrets. Sheffield provides a rich and satisfying history, including time lines of human colonization of the solar system and the subsequent disputes leading up to the Great War, and his world-building always works with the plot, never overpowering it. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. THE GANYMEDE CLUB. A second yarn set in the medium-future, war-devastated solar system of Cold as Ice (1992), with some of the characters in common. In the year 2032, the crew of the ship Marklake are exploring a tiny moon of Saturn when they stumble upon a slime-like alien life-form that confers immortality. They form the Ganymede Club, dedicated to protecting their own long-term interests and keeping the secret of their fountain of youth. In 2063, on Mars, super-gambler Danny Clay, hiding under another identity, interviews a striking young woman who wants to know, barring accidents, how long she might live. The woman soon turns up dead—and so does Danny Clay. War devastates the solar system in 2067; Lola Belman and her young brother, Spook, escape from Earth to Ganymede. Five years later, Lola, now a ``haldane'' or futuristic shrink, accepts a client, Bryce Sonnenberg, who suffers mysterious blackouts following which he recalls memories (?) of places he's never visited. Spook teams up with the weird, reclusive computer genius, Bat, to try and solve the problem of Bryce's past. Meanwhile, the ruthless Ganymede Club members are also taking an interest in Bryce—somehow he seems to have acquired the memories of Danny Clay, whom they assassinated on Mars! So: Will Lola, Spook, and Bat solve the riddle of Bryce's past before the Club's assassin, Jinx Barker, murders them all? Another intriguing and involving effort, whose one possible drawback is that it doesn't chronologically advance the persuasively detailed scenario Sheffield has already expertly mapped out. Pub Date: Dec. 1, 1995. ISBN: 0-312-85662-8. Page Count: 352. Publisher: Tor. Review Posted Online: May 20, 2010. Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15, 1995. Share your opinion of this book. Did you like this book? More by Charles Sheffield. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. New York Times Bestseller. DEVOLUTION. by Max Brooks ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 16, 2020. Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you.” Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.” Grossness aside, it puts you right there on the scene. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Pub Date: June 16, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-9848-2678-7. Page Count: 304. Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine. Review Posted Online: Feb. 10, 2020. Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2020. Share your opinion of this book. Did you like this book? More by Max Brooks. More About This Book. A celebration of fantasy that melds modern ideology with classic tropes. More of these dragons, please. New York Times Bestseller. THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE. by Samantha Shannon ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 26, 2019. After 1,000 years of peace, whispers that “the Nameless One will return” ignite the spark that sets the world order aflame. No, the Nameless One is not a new nickname for Voldemort. Here, evil takes the shape of fire-breathing dragons—beasts that feed off chaos and imbalance—set on destroying humankind. The leader of these creatures, the Nameless One, has been trapped in the Abyss for ages after having been severely wounded by the sword Ascalon wielded by Galian Berethnet. These events brought about the current order: Virtudom, the kingdom set up by Berethnet, is a pious society that considers all dragons evil. In the East, dragons are worshiped as gods—but not the fire-breathing type. These dragons channel the power of water and are said to be born of stars. They forge a connection with humans by taking riders. In the South, an entirely different way of thinking exists. There, a society of female mages called the Priory worships the Mother. They don’t believe that the Berethnet line, continued by generations of queens, is the sacred key to keeping the Nameless One at bay. This means he could return—and soon. “Do you not see? It is a cycle.” The one thing uniting all corners of the world is fear. Representatives of each belief system—Queen Sabran the Ninth of Virtudom, hopeful dragon rider Tané of the East, and Ead Duryan, mage of the Priory from the South—are linked by the common goal of keeping the Nameless One trapped at any cost. This world of female warriors and leaders feels natural, and while there is a “chosen one” aspect to the tale, it’s far from the main point. Shannon’s depth of imagination and worldbuilding are impressive, as this 800-pager is filled not only with legend, but also with satisfying twists that turn legend on its head. Shannon isn’t new to this game of complex storytelling. Her Bone Season novels ( The Song Rising , 2017, etc.) navigate a multilayered society of clairvoyants. Here, Shannon chooses a more traditional view of magic, where light fights against dark, earth against sky, and fire against water.