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One of the two or three best novels I've ever read. Wonderful world building, the Guerans, Terrans, and variants. The Author clearly understands coders, their motivations, their gift for obsession; their love of exploits. She understands the coin of their realm. It just feels really right. Reminiscent of Will Gibson in the elegance with which parallel story archs come together. I've honestly never much liked any other book by the author I've cracked open, but this book is special and I would love to see her expand this universe.


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This Alien Shore CS Friedman Books Reviews

C. S. Friedman is an author who never disappoints, and every one of her books (or trilogies) is different from the others. Unlike so many sci fi / fantasy authors, she is no one-note storyteller, which is one reason I enjoy reading her books so much. The other reason is that she is an unparalleled world builder. You enter her worlds when you read her books and they are never boring. If you haven't read her yet, do yourself a huge favor and do so. You won't be sorry.
I loved this book so much that I had to get the version even though I still have my hard copy first release of this work of art. C.S. Friedman is one of the most amazing writers of our time. She can do straight sci - fi or mix it with superb ease with fantasy as she did in her amazing "Coldfire Trilogy." I have read all of her works to date save the one just released as I am hoping to win it. I will not be completely happy until I have kindle copies of all the books that I have in either hard or soft cover. She is a genius of her art.
I'm not quite sure how I've gone this long and hadn't even heard of C.S. Friedman, but am certainly happy that I have now (and btw, thank you to whomever it was that had this book on their Great Space Opera list, because that's how I found it).

The writing is wonderful, the characters beautifully fleshed out and the story zips along nicely. This is, for lack of a better description, neo old school space opera, done with a remarkable originality. It's unlike anything I've read before. Once I got into it, the only thing that took me away was the need to eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom.

I plan on reading all her stuff now, and am, in fact, firmly entrenched in The Madness Season which I then plan to follow with her Coldfire Trilogy.

A note though for readers - there are a lot of typos in this book. A lot. So many that I deducted a star. And for the anti-format rating people out there - sorry, but leaves no other option. I'd be delighted, as I'm sure many readers would, if they gave us one.
....ends up forging his own destiny and writing his name in the stars.

I read this book as a teenager, and was deeply affected by it. Later, I read it as an adult, as was not-quite-so impressed anymore, but C.S. Friedman's world had sunk its claws into my mind, deep the idea of Code as poetry, as art, became a bit of an obsession with me. I sought perfection with an <i>iru</i>-like determination, turning the entire text of my first published novel into a computer program that could be compiled...

If this review is vague and lacking in some specific details, it's mostly because I think other reviewers have discussed the plot and the characters -- book's been out for a while, after all -- and I think my contribution needs to be centered around my personal experience. For everything else, there's google.

I read this again today. And the critiques of it--from my early twenties--withered and died till only one of them was left.

This Alien Shore is one of the most beautiful implementations of starfairing humanity I've seen. The Guild is a hybrid of the Bene Gesserit and the Navigator's Guild of Dune, with politics and powerplays and complexity, but ultimately an entirely *ethical* worldview and objective. It's Dune without the soul-twisting. And the treatment of FTL...the anniq, the dragons...it will leave readers breathless. Without ever truly *talking* about it, the entire novel expresses and uplifts the hunger for starflight, the hunger to extend the threshold of our reach as individuals and as a species.

The plot has two threads--one follows a young girl, a repository of great and unknown secrets, on the run from Earth and its corporations. The other is Lucifer a virus that is wrecking havoc on the Guild's navigators, threatening the foundations of mankind's salvation--FTL travel through the rifts of space that bind all the worlds together.

The computer/bioware aspects of this have many neuromancer-like components, but without the dystopian grit.

The characters are true--true to themselves, if not to our expectations of them--they are individuals, deeply meaningful, their lives and hopes and dreams and fears sketched out in vibrant 3D. Relationships-professional, romantic, adversarial-all are true to their function and form, and heartbreaking in some cases, liberating in others.

The complaints of my early-twenties were plot-related - that the pacing was off, certain scenes went on too long, others were not in the right places. This remains a mild criticism, tempered by the realization that back then I was young and impatient, and wanted to get to the "good bits". As a writer, I slowed down, appreciated the prose, the development, the subtle-but-necessary touches that made everything <i>more</i>. The one criticism that remains is that while the two plot-threads deepened and strengthened each others' themes, ultimately their intersection was not one of mutual resolution but of mutual understanding. That is...not a bad thing. But it doesn't bring the story full-circle in terms of action. The fear-and-threat felt so viscerally by the MC is not vindicated in a quite-satisfying way. Minus one star. But since this is getting graded on a 6-star scale, specially-made by me for the works that have influenced me so deeply, a full set of five stars remain.

This is a beautiful novel, full of hope for the future. Humanity's discarded children rise above the pettiness-of-soul that characterizes so much of mankind's history. Deeply flawed individuals display nobility of spirit, and the diverse, the mad, the broken, make their way to where they truly belong--the stars.

Read it. You'll be happy you did. And when you're done, perhaps you'll come to the same conclusion I did We are all Variants, and Guera is our home.
I really liked the story. Good characters. Great pacing.

Too bad I bought the version which suffered from many grammatical and typographical errors. I think that it is a complete rip-off to pay for a book at nearly $9.00 and get something that received all of the care and consideration that a high school drop out gives a senior project. I get it that OCR is inaccurate, but surely some member of the human race could have at least run the book through a spell checker to catch the "rn" combinations that were transformed into "m"'s and the "tp" instead of "to." Then there were the times when there was a random period in the middle of the sentence.

C.S Friedman wrote a great novel, too bad her publisher didn't care enough to make sure that the proof reading was done.
Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy book that I've ever read. I read many of books in these genres, and I've never been this impressed with a single book. I can't believe it's been around for decades before I stumbled upon it.
I love C.S. Friedman's character development and dialogue writing ability. The complexity of the world's she creates and detail she applies enthralls me. This book is phenomenal. Why it hasn't been translated into a movie is a mystery to me.
The ending is solid, but I was sad that the ride was over.
I want another excuse to jump back into this world. Ms. Friedman, please right a sequel.
One of the two or three best novels I've ever read. Wonderful world building, the Guerans, Terrans, and variants. The Author clearly understands coders, their motivations, their gift for obsession; their love of exploits. She understands the coin of their realm. It just feels really right. Reminiscent of Will Gibson in the elegance with which parallel story archs come together. I've honestly never much liked any other book by the author I've cracked open, but this book is special and I would love to see her expand this universe.