- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Time Warner Publishing M/M (October 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0446361488
- ISBN-13: 978-0446361484
- Product Dimensions: 16.5 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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adventure, technology, and humanities, Mar 11 2011
By BlueCatShip "benwh" - Published on Amazon.com
Netwalkers: GroundTies has several things going for it. You have strong, believable characters, male and female, and they have real quirks, flaws, and strengths. You have high technology alongside low-tech living, with a relevant and believable computer network problem. You have conflicting ideas by several groups, not just two sides, on how these people act and their beliefs and goals. You have space-going humans who think themselves advanced, and some of whom think others are backward. You have planet-dwelling colonists who want to live their lives as they see fit. You have moderates and radicals and kooks. You have real differences in how people live in space, on ships, on stations, on planets, and their cultural outlooks all differ. Then you have a strange technical problem and various groups with vested interests in solving or covering up or exploiting the problem. Now throw in a character who has been uprooted from all he knows and who is struggling to adapt, and a researcher banned for maverick ideas and behavior, and you have the highlights of a really good read. Get the book. Get the other books in the series. You'll want to know what happens next.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Great food for thought, Mar 11 2011
By S. Reynolds - Published on Amazon.com
Groundties, complex and character-driven, is a story difficult to forget. Other reviewers have summarized the plot well, so I won't repeat it. Suffice it to say that moral and ethical situations related to technology and relationships are explored with such finesse that you'll be thinking about them for a long, long time. I love this book so much that despite already having it in paperback, I took advantage of its newly-released Kindle format and purchased it again.
Groundties is a GREAT read! Advice from someone who knows: plan ahead to read it on a day off, because it is so engrossing that you won't want to put it down.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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As timely today as it gets..., Mar 11 2011
By cj "cj" - Published on Amazon.com
In a web-connected future where intellectual property is infinitely copyable--and a copy cannot be told from the original...
How do the creators survive?
A character-driven novel about corruption, survival and the creative soul.
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