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de PETER F HAMILTON (Author) "IT WAS THE THIRD THURSDAY in January, and after a fortnight of daily drizzles, the first real storm of England's monsoon season was due to..." En savoir plus
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This second volume in British author Hamilton's cyberthriller trilogy (Mindstar Rising, LJ 6/15/96) depicts a tropical England after global warming. Greg Mandel has a bioware endocrine-gland implant that triggers his empathic intuition, handy when solving crimes. Here he must investigate the brutal death of professor Edward Kitchener, who had been researching quantum cosmology for the Event Horizon conglomerate. In this tightly wrought tale of murder, Hamilton integrates hard sf and mystery while tackling ecological and political issues. Highly recommended for most sf collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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A second workout for Greg Mandel, veteran of the Mindstar Battalion (Mindstar Rising, 1996), whose implanted gland gives him the psi powers of empathy and intuition in a medium-future England beset by climatic warming and politico-economic chaos. This time, irreverent, bawdy old genius physicist Edward Kitchener has been murdered and horribly mutilated at Launde Abbey, where he ran a colloquium for budding physics whizzes, invented new drugs, researched wormholes, and generally raised hell. Julia Evans of Event Horizon, which funded Kitchener, requests Greg's input after the police confess themselves baffled: None of the six young resident physicists appear to be guilty, nor is it possible for an outsider to have come and gone undetected. Greg empathically interviews the six, and, sure enough, they're all innocent. So Greg's wife, Eleanor, volunteers to test a Kitchener drug that should enable her to view the past. She witnesses diffident genius Nicholas Beswick do the grisly deed, but Beswick denies involvement, as Greg's inquiries seem to confirm. What's going on? Well, psychiatrist James MacLennan has discovered how to project one personality on top of another--and one of his patients is convicted psychokiller Liam Bursken. The intriguing backdrop and solid characters enliven what is otherwise an overlong, overstuffed, and not particularly believable investigation. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Adventurous Speculative SciFi, Oct. 5 2002
This review is from: Quantum Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
This author writes a well paced book. If you like the idea of
Gland Psychics, Hardliners (body guards) and Cyber
technology, this one is fun.
Good characterisation and a story wonderful!! More speculative SciFi please.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Better than Mindstar rising, Sep 24 2002
Par Amberblade (New England, USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Quantum Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
Well, here we have the sequel to Mindstar Rising. It has many of the same characters, bringing some old favorites back for a second book.
Overall, this book is 3 stars. Some elements were better than others, obviously. The characters were good, though Eleanor still seems to have no personallity whatsoever. The plot was inplausible, at best, and hard to believe. The writing style was still very interesting, and is, in fact, the only reason that I finished this book at all.
A murder mystery set in future England, with not one but several odd twists. Not good twists really, nor believable, but not too farfetched, if you have a very, very open mind. (I think I'll leave it at that.)
One of the best things about this book though was the fact that the author obviously took some pains to follow semi-known physics, and tried not to bend the laws of the universe too far. Also, even though these things play a major part in the story, the aren't the dominating feature. So, for those of you not interested in theoretical quantum physics, or cosmology, this book won't bore you to tears.
All in all, it flowed (to me at least) better than Mindstar Rising, even if the storyline was a little thin in several places.
I also found the discription of the inside of an insane seriel killer's mind quite interesting; it really makes you wonder.
So, if you liked the first book, chances are that this one will appeal to you as well.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 An excellent sequel to Mindstar Rising., Aoû 28 2000
Par Allan A. Macbain (AYR, Ayrshire Scotland) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Quantum Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
Some years after the events portrayed in Mindstar Rising, Greg Mandell finds himself being called in to help Julia Evans solve the mystery of the murder of a scientist who was doing some work for her company - Things start to get 'interesting' very quickly - in the sense of the Chinese Curse, that is.

Again set in the Rutland area of England, Greg has now married the girl he met in the first book & that adds its own complications (read the book to find out more on that); with psychic abilities also playing a large part in this book, including a very nice twist to 'solving' the murder.

These books always get me thinking, the events are set in the near future, with environmental & political upheavals which are all too possible. A very good read.

If you haven't read 'Mindstar Rising'(the first book), don't worry - this book stands on its own, but you will benefit if you read 'Mindstar' first.

Better still, read the trilogy, you won't regret it.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 A respectable followup to Mindstar Rising
This, the second of three Greg Mandel novels, is quite similar in style and substance to Mindstar Rising. Read more
Publié le Mai 16 2000 par Peter Venetoklis

3.0étoiles sur 5 The needet follow-up to Mindstar Rising.
This boot took me longer time to read than Mindstar Rising. I dont know if that has anything to do with my feelings about the book.. Read more
Publié le Oct. 6 1999

3.0étoiles sur 5 Good characters, good setting, dreadful plot
As in the first Greg Mandel book, "Mindstar Rising", the characters and setting are excellently drawn. Read more
Publié le Sep 6 1999

4.0étoiles sur 5 Agatha Christie in the 21st century
I picked this book up on a whim in a sale which was unfortunate as A Quantum Murder is one in a series, although not a direct sequel. Read more
Publié le Oct. 5 1998 par John Breakwell

4.0étoiles sur 5 A gripping murder mystery...
Quantum murder is the best of the Greg Mandell (Mindstar Rising) triology, and although second in the series it was in fact written last. Read more
Publié le Oct. 19 1997

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