- Paperback: 150 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Australia (Feb 26 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140384448
- ISBN-13: 978-0140384444
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 91 g
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What if a primitive young nomad met a superintelligent computer in the middle of nowhere? That's what happens to Jansi, a scavenger who runs across a damaged Stelcorp starship in the desert and slowly forms a mutually advantageous friendship with the ship's computer, PIM. Simon Oats uses mechanical enhancement to voice PIM and gives Jansi's wild and fearful side full play as he brings this oddest of odd couples to life. The story tackles themes like the nature of communication in such a believable way, it's no wonder it won Australia's Children's Book Council Book of the Year for Older Readers Award in 1998. M.C. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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An engrossing "science fantasy" novel, Jun 28 2005
By Laraine A. Barker "Laraine A Barker" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Eye To Eye (Paperback)
Jansi, scavenging in the desert, stumbles across a Stelcorp star ship embedded in the sand. The ship's nickname is PIM and it needs Jansi's help to repair itself. But Jansi has never encountered a star ship before, much less one capable of thinking and talking, and he takes the voice for that of Shaklat, the god of his people, and the star ship for Shaklat's temple. PIM and Jansi forge an unlikely friendship and when PIM is threatened with destruction by Stelcorp they need all their cunning to stop this happening.Some people might consider this book to be science fiction (because it features space ships) but it's probably more accurate to describe it as science fantasy because it's definitely in the realms of fantasy that humans will ever create a sentient machine of any type, never mind a machine as complex as a space ship.
Catherine Jinks abandons the stark spareness of the writing style used in the Pagan books, which abound with incomplete sentences, while still writing succinctly. I love the way each scene is revealed to the reader first through Jansi's eyes and then through PIM's. Jinks is the first writer to use present tense without unsettling me. It worked beautifully in the Pagan books and it works just as well here.
I couldn't put this book down and was reading well after I should have switched off the light and gone to sleep.
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