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    Paradox: Book I of the Nulapeiron Sequence

    By John Meaney

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    Centuries of self-imposed isolation have transformed Nulapeiron into a world unlike any other - a world of vast subterranean cities maintained by extraordinary organic technologies. For the majority of its peoples, however such wonders have little meaning. Denied their democratic rights and restricted to the impoverished lower levels, they are subjected to the brutal law of the Logic Lords and the Oracles, supra-human beings whose ability to truecast the future maintains the status quo. But all this is about to change. In a crowded marketplace a mysterious, beautiful woman is brutally cut down by a militia squad's graser fire. Amongst the horrified onlookers is young Tom Corcorigan. He recognizes her. Only the previous day she had presented him with a small, seemingly insignificant info-crystal. And only now, as the fire in the dying stranger's obsidian eyes fades, does he comprehend who - or what - she really was: a figure from legend, one of the fabled Pilots. What Tom has still to discover is that his crystal holds the key to understanding mu-space, and so to freedom itself. He doesn't know it yet, but he has been given a destiny to fulfill - nothing less than the rewriting of his future, and that of his world... Spectacularly staged, thrillingly written and set in a visionary future, Paradox places John Meaney at the forefront of science fiction in this new century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPyr
    Release dateSep 9, 2010
    ISBN9781591027959
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    • 4/5
      All in all an engaging book with a well fleshed out main character. Definitely inventive and original in many aspects. Unfortunately there are large segments of the book filled with esoteric language based on the physical and computer sciences. This greatly hampers the driving flow of the plot.
    • 5/5
      Another tale set in the same universe as To Hold Infinity, set on an entirely different planet; we learn more about the Pilots introduced in Meaney’s first novel, and are introduced to the world of Nulapeiron, whose incomplete terraforming requires that the populace live in underground caverns. The semi-feudal Lords that rule the planet rely on the prognostications of Oracles that provide glimpses of the future based on some speculative quantum cosmology. In a world of many layers of caverns, social strata are literal as well as figurative.Our hero, Tom Corcorigan, is just another low-caste victim of the world’s unjust social structure as he is orphaned by the action of an Oracle— but he has an edge in a secret gift he received from a banned Pilot operative. Tom’s tale goes to the highest and lowest strata of Nulapeiron as he works to survive and seek revenge.The book is quite a page-turner, with much implied rather than made explicit. The science in the fiction is quite interesting, delving into game theory, quantum physics, and cosmology; I have a BS in physics and found it quite interesting, but I don’t know how well it would work for someone with less of a science background. I also enjoyed the depiction of the possibilities of moderately-strong nanotechnology.
    • 4/5
      This book has a very familiar feel to most of its plot development; it starts with a young boy whose situation goes from bad to worse, but then what looks like a misfortune becomes the key to his elevation from misery to exaltation. Revenge and family are large thematic elements in this book, as well as the responsibility of government.A very good book, if somewhat difficult to summarize. There's a lot of what feels like excessively technical talk about logic and paradox that feels a little overdone, but it's just this side of too much. I'll certainly be reading the next in the series.