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Edges (Inverted Frontier Book 1)

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From the Edge of Apocalypse: Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization—those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties—have all fallen to ruins. Powerful telescopes can see only dust and debris where once there were orbital mega-structures so huge they eclipsed the light of their parent stars. No one knows for sure what caused the Hallowed Vasties to fail, but a hardened adventurer named Urban intends to find out. He has the resources to do it. He commands a captive alien starship fully capable of facing the dangers that lie beyond Deception Well. With a ship’s company of explorers and scientists, Urban is embarking on a voyage of re-discovery. They will be the first in centuries to confront the hazards of an inverted frontier as they venture back along the path of human migration. Their goal: to unravel the mystery of the Hallowed Vasties and to discover what monstrous life might have grown up among the ruins. Edges is a new entry point into the classic story world of Linda Nagata’s The Nanotech Succession. From Karl Schroeder, New York Times Notable author of Ventus, and of Stealing Worlds: "In the Nanotech Succession, Linda Nagata crafted one of the great sagas of galactic- scale science fiction. Yet for every revelation and discovery we found another mystery—none so great as what destroyed the supposedly omnipotent, star- spanning civilization of the Hallowed Vasties. At last, in Edges, Nagata teases at an answer, while simultaneously upping the stakes. Edges is a taut story that asks how far you might push yourself, and how much of your own humanity you might have to sacrifice to save those you love. Edges bursts with ideas and proves once again that Nagata is one of SF's great worldbuilders." "Edges runs on a lot of brain power, and it's an intellectually stimulating read that posits some truly intriguing questions and ethical dilemmas [...] While the bulk of Edges is interested in more heady affairs and the nature of mankind's place in the cosmos, Nagata's proficiency in writing action beats is certainly on strong and regular display [...] as this book ramps up to its dizzying, frenetic climax...." —High Fever Books Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mythic Island Press LLC


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Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 2, 2019


Language ‏ : ‎ English


File size ‏ : ‎ 1.3 MB


Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited


Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported


Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled


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    • A good read - worth a try
i got this based on an Amazon recommendation. I'm glad I did. I finished over the course of a few evenings. I ordered the 2nd book in the series. Before I wrote this review, I browsed the 3-star reviews to get a feel for a different perspective. So, first off, if you expecting advanced combat, phasers, and warp drive on the first page, you will not get it. The book does build to some pretty brutal action but it takes time. It is a science fiction story but the author has taken an entirely different approach, a refreshing one that merits reading. Nothing travels faster than light in this book. In fact, most physics we're familiar with is followed. Instead, the author takes computer science and nanotechnology to its logical "end point". Digitizing a human mind is routine. Rather than ship a body across a star system, the binary image is transmitted and imprinted on a grown-to-order body, if needed. People live in cyberspace, sometimes as digital life, sometimes in parallel with their flesh counterparts. This leads to "timelines". The same person diverges at the point of duplication as the copies have different experiences. Those copies may later meet up and merge - or not. The author does an excellent job of exploring how this changes the dynamics between people and people's decisions. It is a neat twist. There was a review that pointed out that this was really "book 4". There was an original series, 3 books, about 20 years ago that I apparently missed. You don't really need that background though. Suffice to say, the 2 main characters have a history that you piece together over the first 100 pages. I've read books where figuring out the history was the main plot element. There is much more to this book than that. I'm happy I took the chance on the book. As I said, I've ordered the next in the series. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2024 by A simple reader
    • Suspenseful and a Good Entry Point to Nagata's Nanotech Succession
A space quest to determine what happened to the human homeworlds, games of deception played against alien berserker ships in deep space, and a mysterious castaway who wants to hijack that quest for his own ends – this novel returns to the universe of Nagata’s Nanotech Succession and takes place shortly after Vast. Nagata says she crafted this to be a new entry point into the series, and she succeeded. I remembered little of the last two novels of the series, Deception Well and Vast and was able to pick up on the story quickly. The Inverted Frontier of the title refers to the center of humanity’s expansion into space, the core from which man expanded outward. That core, the Hallowed Vasties, seems to have undergone some great change, the Dyson swarms around its suns have been dismantled. Thus humanity, at least in its altered version, exists only on the fringe planet of Deception Well. The story opens with a Chenzeme courser approaching that planet. It’s not a welcome event, but it is one that has been prepared for since humanity fought a war against the Chenzeme, a mysterious alien race extensively using biological modifications and nanotech in its spaceships. But the ship, the Dragon, turns out to unexpectedly be in friendly hands. Urban, part of the expedition at the center of Vast, has returned to Deception Well with a ship he commands. He’s imposed his will on the ship’s alien sentient technology, an experience later likened to having a foot on a murderer’s throat. Urban’s not stopping at Deception Well, not even slowing down, but headed towards the Hallowed Vasties to see what happened there. He puts the call out for 10 volunteers to go with him. He especially wants the local version of Clemantine, his old lover who went with him on that expedition, to join him. Her body is revived from its “sleep” and her “ghost”, an electronic recording of her personality and memories, is beamed to the ship along with the unexpectedly large number of Deception Well inhabitants, 60 in all, that want to join Urban’s expedition. Reminiscent of some of Peter F. Hamilton’s work, Nagata comes up with several uses and implications for the idea that human consciousness can be recorded, the resulting data modified and pruned and duplicated and incorporated into bodies. For instance, one of the volunteers memorably has trouble following Urban’s example of casually creating bodies, putting a ghost in them, and using them as disposable reconnaissance units. Also, there are not the resources to let all the volunteers incarnate physically, so their ghosts must inhabit the ship’s computer system. But, when the ship meets, in the ruins of a world, a mysterious human called Lezuri who wants to use the Dragon for his own ends, a struggle for the ship and the fate of the expedition kicks into high gear. While I criticized Vast for being a bit slow in parts, that certainly was not the case in this book of over 400 pages. Nagata quickly presents conflicts and resolves them and throws new ones up. Is Urban, showing up in a Chenzeme ship, trustworthy? Is Lezuri’s distress signal a trap? Can he be trusted? Again, I’m impressed by how much emotion Nagata gets out of such sparse prose. She gives us jealous characters and shows how some of them become more hardened and ruthless as the novel progresses. Nagata has never treated nanotechnology as magic. While her use of that now omnipresent bit of sf hardware is not as detailed as Wil McCarthy’s Bloom, she still treats it as a technology with limitations. It takes time to work. It generates heat. It needs the relevant raw materials, and it is not invulnerable. It’s possible I wasn’t paying close enough attention when reading Vast, but I think her explanations of Chenzeme technology are clearer here. I did have a couple of quibbles. First, Vytet, who is constantly changing her appearance and sex, seems a sop to modern transgender obsessions. To be fair, though, body switching and gender swapping has been a sf thing since at least John Varley. Even Poul Anderson, in The Boat of a Million Years, had characters undergoing sex change. Second, I’m not sure why she decided to narrate the interludes with Vytet in the currently trendy second person. She could have kept their immediacy and mystery and used traditional third person voice. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2020 by Randy Stafford
    • a grand start to a great series
I review this having read the two follow up books Strap in and enjoy the ride these books are big concepts and small wonders and human characters thrown into the universe where bodies can be remade and your essence reinserted …. A new kind of space opera
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2024 by josephmm
    • Not quite the story I was hoping for based on the summary
Still a very good read. Not a compelling read though, I found it pretty easy to put the book down for days/weeks. I'll pick up the sequel at some point, but not right away.
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2024 by Chris
    • This book is space opera fantasy, it isn't science fiction in a literal sense.
Book masterfully written in terms of language quality, style, sentence composition. In a whole it's leaves good impression, the main heroes characters are built in convincing way and realistic. Now the "but" "however" etc part: 1. As most of fantasy / fiction writers, author pictures relationships and characters in a way that doesn't reflect cultural changes that inevitably would arise due to development of technologies that allows self modification. It isn't something crucial or new - most of writers fails from that point of view. 2. The conclusion part doesn't sounds reasonable or rational in any way e.g. would be more interesting to find different reasons for continuation of story. 3. When I tried to retell the story, I discovered that amount of turning points / significant events are low basically content / profound ideas are scarce, could be that author want to patiently spread those across trilogy. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2023 by Amazon Customer

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