HULL ZERO THREE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Greg Bear | 320 pages | 01 Nov 2011 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575100961 | English | London, United Kingdom Hull Zero Three - Wikipedia They are all suffering from fragmented memories, just like Teacher, but little by little they begin to piece together what happened. They learn that Destination Guidance, the crew responsible for locating a suitable planet for colonization, suffered a schism within its ranks. The schism erupted into all-out war, with one faction trying to complete the mission, and the other trying to abort. Teacher and his new companions must fight to stay alive as they piece together what caused the split. Then they will face a monumental decision as they unravel the secrets behind Ship's true mission. Hull Zero Three is Greg Bear's entry to the generation-spanning, space-ark branch of science-fiction, and it's a doozy! Imagine three twelve kilometer long ships and a moon of ice, all rocketing through the universe at twenty percent light speed. The author throws a nice little twist into this one, answering the moral question: What if the planet selected for colonization is already inhabited? Bear never does anything small, does he? The story is told entirely from the perspective of Teacher, who is unable to access much of his memory. This allows the reader to figure things out right along with the main character, which really makes you feel like you're part of the story. I may be showing my age here, but watching the characters wander through the ship, finding objects which were not always immediately useful, and gathering clues as they go, made the book feel like a game of Dungeons and Dragons. The only drawback I found in Hull Zero Three was that I sometimes had trouble picturing what Bear was trying to describe. He has such a powerful imagination, that sometimes I couldn't keep up. I still enjoyed the audiobook, though. It has interesting characters who are placed in interesting situations. I even liked the ending, which is something that I think a lot of authors struggle with. He used different voices for the characters and read with a lot of enthusiasm. Overall, Hull Zero Three is a good piece of science fiction from one of the genre's heavy hitters. All he has are questions-- Who is he? Where are they going? What happened to the dream of a new life? What happened to Hull 03? Watch the Promo Video. Booklist : Never one to play it safe in his consistently inventive fiction, Bear takes the reader for a harrowing ride on a labyrinthine starship in his latest hard-SF-oriented novel. Naked, disoriented, and forced by extreme temperature and gravity fluctuations to find safety somewhere among a confusing network of passageways, the man eventually receives help from an odd assortment of fellow Dreamtime refugees. Taking stock of their surroundings, while avoiding onboard killing machines, the gang quickly realizes the starship has given them each a unique role to play, including discovering collectively why the ship has been seriously damaged and cast aside from its mission to seek out habitable worlds. Dan Simmons: "Greg Bear's voice is a resonant, clear chord of quality binding some of the best SF of the 20th Century to the short list of science- savvy, sophisticated, top-notch speculative fiction of the 21st. More than a grace note, Hull Zero Three is a compelling allegro in the growing symphony of Greg Bear's finest work. Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Multiple Hugo and Nebula winner Bear City at the End of Time sets this difficult but rewarding short novel on an interstellar colony ship gone astray. The SF Site Featured Review: Hull Zero Three More than a grace note, Hull Zero Three is a compelling allegro in the growing symphony of Greg Bear's finest work. Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Multiple Hugo and Nebula winner Bear City at the End of Time sets this difficult but rewarding short novel on an interstellar colony ship gone astray. Teacher was supposed to be awakened just before landfall. What he finds when he gains some semblance of consciousness, however, is a dangerous and chaotic environment, with monsters roaming the ship's corridors and no one in charge. As he and a small band of equally ignorant crew members attempt to reach the gigantic ship's control center, they travel through a series of labyrinthine spaces, uncovering a variety of clues to the disaster that has destroyed large parts of the starship and damaged the controlling AIs. Not for those who prefer their space opera simpleminded, this beautifully written tale where nothing is as it seems will please readers with a well-developed sense of wonder. By Greg Bear Original publication date: It is from these diaries that Teacher discovers the true nature of his situation. His companions are clones as well, genetically engineered for specific purposes. The ship's crew has separated into two groups, each vying for control of the ship. One faction wants to abandon their mission to colonize a planet which is already teeming with life, while the other wants to press forward. The ship is damaged during one of their battles, and the clones have been created in order to fix it. Teacher, who discovers his real name is Sanjay, eventually reaches the third hull of the book's title where he encounters Mother, who is the leader of the faction that wants to continue to their destination. She tells him she created him to be her ally. In the end, Teacher and his companions flee from Mother and await their arrival on the new planet. Chris Hsiang summarizes the overall impact of the book as " When you look past all the action and exotic scenery Teacher's turmoil boils down to, 'Who am I and why are we here? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Slant which takes place in Moving Mars' milieu may still be of interest too, though it never connected that well with me even at the time and it's very "cyberpunky" with the now dead subgenre's combination of prescience social computing, Internet's pervasive reach and transformative power and hilarious naivete human nature, politics, history , cyberpunk being the Jetsons of the 90's and a perfect showcase for why and how sf dates so quickly. For most part the narration is first person stream-of- consciousness with the - "recently born" though as a a full grown man - narrator slowly discovering or "recalling" pertinent facts about the situation at hand while he essentially tries to survive moment to moment. The blurb above describes well enough the general set-up and part of the novel's enjoyment is discovering what's what, so I will not add more. Hull Zero Three is literary hard sf with a good dose of social commentary. It is true that the book is confusing for a good while and I found myself retracing the narrative several times when some new detail appeared that seemed implied earlier and I could not recall it, but that is natural since the narrator is confused himself and the book conveys this perfectly. The hard sf stuff ship capabilities, layout, conditions, artifacts is also done superbly and we slowly fit the puzzle together with the narrator. For its first two parts which cover most of the book, Hull Zero Three was a superb read that showed how you can combine a literary style with hard-sf and keep the reader turning the pages, but I was mixed about the last part that explains things. On its own it is well done and quite emotional, but I thought that it broke the novel's unity and its narrative balance, moving from immediacy and continual discovery, to a view from above and omniscience. This change stamped Hull Zero Three as a genre novel that conforms to the requirement of explaining almost all. And that did not work well for me since I would rather have had an ambiguous ending with the characters still facing the unknown, ending which if handled well would have been more in the spirit of what came before. Cataloguing everything wrong with this book would take an age. Suffice to say poor writing combined with poor plotting leaves me frustrated with another Bear novel that had enough interesting ideas to give it a fairly generous two stars. As with previous books I've read by him, I find that the material would probably have suited another writer much better. In this case, Alastair Reynolds, who would have delighted in the Gothic horror elements and in fact wrote a vastly superior novella, Slow Bul Cataloguing everything wrong with this book would take an age. In this case, Alastair Reynolds, who would have delighted in the Gothic horror elements and in fact wrote a vastly superior novella, Slow Bullets, that somewhat overlaps in territory. Feb 09, Greg Bates rated it it was amazing Shelves: It's a story as old as science fiction itself. Guy wakes up on a spaceship, has no freaking clue where he is or what he's supposed to do, aaaaand run with it. As a veritable elder statesman of the hard sci-fi genre, Greg Bear both embraces and subverts this cliched idea in the utterly brilliant Hull Zero Three. The book's protagonist, the functiona It's a story as old as science fiction itself. The book's protagonist, the functionally named Teacher, wakes up in a statis pod not just without his real name and memories but the very words needed to describe the bizarre world in which he awakens.