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This is a wonderful story with a completely science fiction setting. It’s a story of love, of family, of a struggle against all odds, and importantly one of survival and perhaps it also demonstrates what it is that makes us human. It challenges what really defines who and what we are. It’s a story of terraforming new worlds and the challenges we might face. It’s a story of brotherly love, and family. Patty Jansen does a wonderful job to craft such a complex, multi-faceted, and highly enjoyable s
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Ya know... I am tired of sci-fi being about men, war, and politics. I think that was why I was so excited with Patty Jansen's Watcher's Web. It was all the things I want in sci-fi: space travel, new and different beings, planets, a woman who has a mind of her own.
But, I should have known, HIS Name in Lights wouldn't give me anything but what has already been written about. Please! Ok, Her Majesty was there lighting the lights, so to speak, but... more human emotion. More depth of character. Mayb ...more
But, I should have known, HIS Name in Lights wouldn't give me anything but what has already been written about. Please! Ok, Her Majesty was there lighting the lights, so to speak, but... more human emotion. More depth of character. Mayb ...more
Patty Jansen does science fiction the way it should be done. His Name in Lights takes us to Jupiter and Io, giving us humans, who with all their future diversity, are still human. The story pits engineered humans against Io's volcanoes and human bullies of the first order. It's reminiscent of Asimov and Clarke, and the Golden Age of SF. A very enjoyable book!
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This novelette follows two characters in the midst of large engineering projects centred about Jupiter and Io. What I particularly enjoyed is that, despite a fairly narrow primary plot focus, it read as though it was happening in a large, well-realised universe with lots of other things going on in the background.
Apr 19, 2011
Bryan Thomas Schmidt
marked it as to-read
