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This was a very enjoyable read, managing a good mix of futuristic elements, character exploration and gumshoe detective story. "Mobsters in Spaaaace" is a fairly common trope, and these guys were a little one-dimensional, but fortunately the book deals with them mostly indirectly, so it doesn't mar the reading experience too much. I found Geoff's parents a little too flat and obvious, too.

Without ever crossing the line into full-on transhumanist explorations of the sort Stross, Banks, Vinge, et al, go in for, it nonetheless brings up issues of self-directed genetic modifications and strong AI in interesting and plausible ways, again without derailing the main storyline.

I read this on a lazy Saturday, winding down from the Holiday craziness, and while I didn't quite read it in one sitting, I did manage it in a day. It definitely sucks you into the story quickly.


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Up Against It M J Locke 9780765315151 Books Reviews

It was good fun. But it does feel a bit like young adult fictions at times. And the bad guys are so bad that they do not feel like real people.
Read it!!
I'm not often one for hard science fiction because ...well partially because my science isn't that strong... but also because so much hard science-fiction focuses on the detail with the result that the scientific explanations and world-building overshadow the story. Too often, a brilliantly imagined world is inhabited by lacklustre protagonists who have low-level conflicts against one-dimensional enemies.

Up Against It is a brilliant counter-example characterisation and plot shine against a futuristic backdrop beyond my wildest imaginations. It is set in an Phocaea, a low-gee asteroid outpost filled with awesome special effects and deep world-building - all the hallmarks of a real future. The inhabitants are used to this, even if I as a reader wasn't, and tumble through the buildings, grabbing handholds and using their weight in ways that downsiders like us can barely envisage.

I fell in love with Geoff the moment we met him and his friends a teenager overshadowed by his brother, trying desperately to prove himself to his father and the world. A boy both vulnerable and incorrigible who gets thrown into events and doesn't falter.

Jane is a sympathetic bureaucrat trying to do the best that she can for the asteroid which she calls home, taking tough decisions on a personal and professional level. She has a short temper when it comes to politics and a healthy dislike for the constant broadcast of their colony as Earthside entertainment.

On top of this, the adventure packed plot involving the Martian mafia and you've got a rip-roaring story that had me turning pages deep into the night.

I highly recommend this book.
Great Sci fi story. Good characters, quick plot, would read again or buy a sequel.
Great book. Five stars if the book was a little longer to more thoroughly explore Locke's world and it's interesting ideas.
The strength of this book lies in the complex details and sociology of the civilization. There are mainstream people and there are subcultures much as exist in the real world. We have Goths, bikers and headbangers. They have Chromes and Mutes - designations related to the number of genetic modifications they have used. This setting was very well done but I had trouble understanding the physical layout of the city. It spun, so there were varying levels of pseudo-gravity due to centripetal acceleration, but just what it looked like or where it was were not clear to me. Then there were the "treeways" I think they were cables that connected various asteroids together - I don't think that is practical unless all are in exactly the some orbit. Another complaint is that during action on a smaller asteroid, which has negligible gravity one of the protagonists is hurt when things fall on him after and explosion. The escape velocity would be a few feet per second. You would have hours to get out from under falling things. Another unnecessary error was the girl shooting the bad guy with a potato gun - it knocks him down, but she seems to feel no recoil. I know, picky, picky, picky. I can't help it - I am a hard science fiction guy.
Incredible and seems like it's wildly underrated. This is a great, creative, well written story and you will be glad you read it! Great characters, engaging plot, and lots of action.
This was a very enjoyable read, managing a good mix of futuristic elements, character exploration and gumshoe detective story. "Mobsters in Spaaaace" is a fairly common trope, and these guys were a little one-dimensional, but fortunately the book deals with them mostly indirectly, so it doesn't mar the reading experience too much. I found Geoff's parents a little too flat and obvious, too.

Without ever crossing the line into full-on transhumanist explorations of the sort Stross, Banks, Vinge, et al, go in for, it nonetheless brings up issues of self-directed genetic modifications and strong AI in interesting and plausible ways, again without derailing the main storyline.

I read this on a lazy Saturday, winding down from the Holiday craziness, and while I didn't quite read it in one sitting, I did manage it in a day. It definitely sucks you into the story quickly.