- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Roc (MM) (Oct 7 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451459490
- ISBN-13: 978-0451459497
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.6 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,522,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Psychic investigator Jack Stein makes a living off his dreams, for he receives information on his crime cases in them. If his isn't a respected profession, and he isn't really all that good at it, at least it pays the bills. Now Jack has been hired by resource-hungry, interplanetary conglomerate Outreach Industries to look into the disappearance of a team of miners on Dairil III, and things aren't going so well. His dreams are strangely littered with arcane symbols and undecipherable clues, and in no time at all, a pack of characters who are connected in interesting ways very much wants him out of the way, leading Jack to wonder whether Outreach really wants this case solved. Furthermore, a 12-year-old computer prodigy from the streets, who has adopted Jack as her caretaker, knows a whole lot more about the case than he does. A fun, fast-paced sf mystery. Paula Luedtke
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting, even gripping in a way, but...,
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This review is from: Wyrmhole (Paperback)
Jack's supposed to be supernaturally intuitive, but instead he comes off as lazy, unaware, and stupid. Part of this is bad writing; he puts it all together on one page and three pages later, he's putting the very SAME thing together. I don't think he forgot; the writer did. The world around him is full of people with the same short attention span as Jack, too. The setting itself is a lackadaisical world-view made manifest. In the end Jack wants to break out of all that, but he won't; he'll take it with him.
5.0 out of 5 stars
strong futuristic urban noir,
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This review is from: Wyrmhole (Paperback)
In the distant future, humanity lives in domed areas the size of cities that are bioorganic, self-perpetuating structures. The rich live in the newest areas and the not so wealthy reside in the old section that will disintegrate in a decade or so. Jack Stein, a former black ops agent, works as a physic detective, a person with the gift of psychometry and the ability to find clues in his dreams.Outreach Industries, a very powerful and wealthy corporation, hires Jack to learn what happened to the miners on Daril III who disappeared without a trace. A lover of one of the lost miner's works in the home office of Outreach. He gives Jack the missing Miner's hand held computer. It is password protected so he goes to someone who can crack the code. When he returns, the person is dead, the eleven-year-old child who was staying there goes home with Jack and the police pay him a visit. There is obviously more going on than some missing miners and the conspiracy of silence coaxes Jack to keep tying to solve the case. Fans of futuristic crime thrillers like J.D. Robb's Death series will definitely enjoy WYRMHOLE. The protagonist is a complex man who wears blinders until he is forced to take them off and see the world as it really is (sort of like the Matrix but more mental than physical illusion). Once he does that, the audience sees his inner strength and moral compass emerge and appreciate the man he has become. Science fiction fans and readers who like private investigator talesm, especially those who appreciate a strong convergence, will enjoy this futuristic urban noir. Harriet Klausner
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3.2 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Way more mystery than science fiction,
By Christopher Hivner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wyrmhole (Paperback)
Jack Stein is a psychic investigator. He receives clues in dreams and visions, then puts them together to solve cases. He has been hired by Outreach Industries to investigate the disappearance of one of their mining crews. Jack lives in an enclosed city called the Locality which has three sections Old, Mid and New. Jack's circumstances have him living in Old, not somewhere you necessarily want to be. Being a psychic investigator doesn't pay well and doesn't garner much respect. Add to that the fact that Jack isn't very good at it.The deeper Jack gets into his investigation of the missing miners, the more people lie to him and want to hurt him, until he's not sure what the truth is. An old "friend" who he had enlisted to help him gets killed and Jack finds himself taking care of Billie, a clever, smart, but old-before-her-years 12 year old girl who was living with the friend under unsavory circumstances. Wyrmhole is pretty well written and moves along at a decent pace but ultimately has problems. Jack is not good as an investigator. In fact, I'm not sure he figured any part of it out himself. Someone else was always helping him and pushing him in the right direction. There is also little reason given for you to care about Jack; he's a loser of his own making. When the whole mystery is finally revealed in the end, I was left feeling, 'That was it? That's what took 300 pages to get to?' This isn't a bad novel and it did keep my interest, but it needed work. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
at least its different,
By vegimatic "veg" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wyrmhole (Paperback)
I really like this book, plot was a bit lazy, but the writing style was good. Good character interaction, very good emoting of the central characters. The only thing was that even though he's suppose to be solving things on an unconscious, intuitive level, it does make it seem as if this PI doesn't really solve things so much as been given strategically placed plot movers to make the story progress. Still, this book is more about the journey rather than the end trip. Entertaining just to read and go with it. Like it much better than his 2nd novel in this series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Starts Well, But Deteriorates Quickly,
By David A. Lessnau - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wyrmhole (Paperback)
Jay Caselberg's "Wyrmhole" starts out with a lot of promise: an interesting concept and setting coupled with good, clear writing. But, that promise quickly deteriorates. The further you get into the book, the more you're aware that the main character, a variant of an investigator, has no people skills, no organizational skills, no technical skills, and no INVESTIGATIVE skills. He basically moves through the book by thrashing around and luckily finding others to follow up on the hints he gets from his psychic skills. How we're supposed to believe that he could ever put food on the table as an investigator I don't know. Couple this with a lack of a logical progression through the plot and I can only charitably give it a Pretty Bad 2 stars out of 5.
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