Daughter Moon hg47 9781484950869 Books
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16,000 years into the future a perfect high-tech (no, higher than that) space-based Matriarchy has eliminated the pesky male sex to achieve harmony -- Oops! Here comes 1 very male time traveler from the past! Kali, a skilled computer hacker on Daughter Moon, is womaneuvered into taking charge of the suicide mission to rescue the time traveler in trouble down upon Mother Earth. Lunar's resources are no match for Earth's lifeless eNet computer complex which has evicted huwomanity from Mother Earth. But the time traveler who makes periodic unstable appearances (Goddess Kronos, the focus of the Moonie Religion) has a defensive 5K Field stronger than anything Lunar or Earth have. If the time traveler can be rescued and her 5K Field duplicated, huwomankind will be able to defeat eNet and reclaim Mother Earth. Brought into the top secret meeting as a technical adviser, Kali makes the mistake of speaking up and giving her honest opinion of her leaders' hopelessly incompetent plan. She is goaded into offering up an alternate plan of her own which she thinks just might be possible. Instead of getting demoted and kicked out, Kali is chilled to find herself in absolute command of the rescue, where she will go down to Mother Earth herself with her own picked team. Kali's team succeeds in rescuing the time traveler. Unfortunately Goddess Kronos is a boy. The only male in the solar system. "We can't bring that testosterone infected creature back to Daughter Moon!" More difficult than rescuing the boy from eNet may be keeping him alive on Daughter Moon, which Kali must do, since his technology resists analysis. Another problem one of the astronauts has already fallen in love with the boy. DAUGHTER MOON is Old School hard Science Fiction at 122,840 words, with Matriarchy as the twist. All the Usual Suspects Alien Invasion, teleportation, space battles, nanotechnology, virtual reality; a nobody suddenly given incredible powers; a struggle for the survival of our race and the future of the Universe; a Love more powerful and decisive than any technology. [How did the future space-based civilization become dominated by women? Terrorism + Insurance Rates + Advances in Cloning. One terrorist can kill everyone in a 30,000 population space station. The male/female ratio of terrorists is 50 to 1. Sexual-profiling. Space habitats where males had no access to high security areas were empirically safer, with drastically reduced insurance rates, which made them economically more viable. Within a thousand years the verdict was clear boys were just too dangerous to allow to be born. (Anyway, who needs 'em? We have TomBoys!)]
Daughter Moon hg47 9781484950869 Books
Wow. Daughter Moon by Harvey Griffin. I've read some sci-fi, but it's really not my genre. Nonetheless, I enjoyed Mr. Griffin's novel "Daughter Moon" immensely. I'm giving it four stars, but I think that aficionados of science fiction might argue that the novel deserves five stars.I'm a fan and writer of westerns, so the only reason I read Daughter Moon is because I knew Harv Griffin back in 1973 and '74, when we both attended a small liberal arts college in Santa Fe. We have not been in touch since then, but when I recently learned that Mr. Griffin is a writer, and remembering how much he taught me back in college so long ago, I had to check out his stuff.
Daughter Moon (400 pages) is basically a theoretical science overdose, dealing with relativity, mathematics, physics, potential computer science, string theory, parallel universes, time travel, and just about every other hardcore science theory one can think of. I recommend that anyone who reads it check out the impressive bibliography and definitions at the end of the book before beginning it.
What made the novel fun for me was the humor, the sex, the sexual-political satire, even hilarious fashion industry satire, and the understated compassion for the human condition. As Mr. Griffin's novel shows us, we human beings are the ultimate underdogs in the unfathomable universes of space and time.
The hero is cool. Jack Kronos finds himself on the moon with millions of women and no men. He kind of reminds me of Harv Griffin back at college when he could have had any of the young, intellectual women in the school who recognized his genius. But Harv was too honorable to take unfair advantage. Those who managed to score with him undoubtedly felt that there was nothing unfair about the mutual advantage. (Sorry, Harv--TMI?). Jack Kronos is the same.
But don't get me wrong. The female protagonists and villains are also quite impressive. I'm still in love with Jack's saviors, the brilliant Kali-- strategist and computer programmer extraordinaire-- and the hottest, most sensual, kind, reckless, and fearless astronaut, Aeromancer.
As a fellow writer,I also enjoyed studying how Mr. Griffin solved writer problems. For example, like all writers, Mr. Griffin needed to start the novel out with a page turning BANG! And so the novel begins with a wild action, near-suicide mission, from the moon to earth, in which Kali, Aeromancer, and others attempt to rescue Kronos, against all odds. The writer problem here was how to sustain the action without digressing into all the background science. Mr.Griffin rightly chose to solve the problem by staying within the point of view (pov) of the protagonista Kali, even though it was not completely clear exactly what was going on and details were explained later. This was a masterful choice of direction by Mr. Griffin.
If you like to laugh out loud, if you like humor, and sexual humor, and erotica, and political satire, science fiction, and just plain old, all-out action, check it out.
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Daughter Moon hg47 9781484950869 Books Reviews
Harv made me have almost a headache with this book! ) But not in a negative sense...
It is not exaclty my genre, but the time travel twist (was it time travel, Harv?) made me like it more than I thought when I started.
It is evident that the author put a lot of care in writing this book, and actually I found more that I would expect to find in a science fiction novel. Not easy to describe in short review... just read it! I guess either you'll love it or hate it.
The story starts off with a short immersion into the future society that is a little confusing but is cleared up quickly and becomes an adventure into a brilliantly developed society that will catch you by surprise as it did me. The technology is rooted in hard science with some great sci-fi adaptations (ala Arthur C.) and the author even cites his sources at the end. I had trouble putting it down and hope to see a sequel to this story in the future.
Oh wow, this is some serious hard sic-fi right here. I might even stretch it to speculative fiction. Either way it covers a lot of ground, from Dworkin's `all sexual penetration is rape' to Newtonian physics and functional nanotechnology...not to mention time travel. This book takes some thought to read though. I strongly recommend reading it, but not when there are too many distractions about. It would be easy to get lost in the multiple time-lines and overlapping 'Direct Interface Lifetimes.' You want time available to think through the information presented to you and appreciate the detailed science that the story is interlaced with. A lot of research must have gone into the technical writing. Whomever @hg47 is in real life, he/she has no shortage of education. (Unless he/she is just a simple genius. You never know.) The bibliography (yea there is one) kept my internal social scientist happy and lit my physicist husband's eyes aglow.
But it's also funny, though in a subtle kind of way. For example, a discussion of the works of Kate Gödel (a feminized reference to famed physicist Kurt Gödel) while the villainized Einstein got to keep his masculinity....Spielberg and Shakespeare, well maybe. I also found it endlessly amusing to spot all of the future huwomanity's idolizations of famed feminists the Shere Hite shuttle, Simone de Beauvoir museum, Andrea Dworkin and Avital Ronell ships, classic...or would undoubtedly be for a race of socially superior women. The use of feminized language (huwomanity, womanoeuvred, etc) did take some getting used to, but it works.
If you like your Sci-fi with a hard edge this is the book for you. The writing reminded me a lot of Heinlein with a little Douglas Adams humour thrown in for good measure. Some of the AIs even reminded me of Marvin at times. Seriously, if you're into the genre pick it up.
Wow. Daughter Moon by Harvey Griffin. I've read some sci-fi, but it's really not my genre. Nonetheless, I enjoyed Mr. Griffin's novel "Daughter Moon" immensely. I'm giving it four stars, but I think that aficionados of science fiction might argue that the novel deserves five stars.
I'm a fan and writer of westerns, so the only reason I read Daughter Moon is because I knew Harv Griffin back in 1973 and '74, when we both attended a small liberal arts college in Santa Fe. We have not been in touch since then, but when I recently learned that Mr. Griffin is a writer, and remembering how much he taught me back in college so long ago, I had to check out his stuff.
Daughter Moon (400 pages) is basically a theoretical science overdose, dealing with relativity, mathematics, physics, potential computer science, string theory, parallel universes, time travel, and just about every other hardcore science theory one can think of. I recommend that anyone who reads it check out the impressive bibliography and definitions at the end of the book before beginning it.
What made the novel fun for me was the humor, the sex, the sexual-political satire, even hilarious fashion industry satire, and the understated compassion for the human condition. As Mr. Griffin's novel shows us, we human beings are the ultimate underdogs in the unfathomable universes of space and time.
The hero is cool. Jack Kronos finds himself on the moon with millions of women and no men. He kind of reminds me of Harv Griffin back at college when he could have had any of the young, intellectual women in the school who recognized his genius. But Harv was too honorable to take unfair advantage. Those who managed to score with him undoubtedly felt that there was nothing unfair about the mutual advantage. (Sorry, Harv--TMI?). Jack Kronos is the same.
But don't get me wrong. The female protagonists and villains are also quite impressive. I'm still in love with Jack's saviors, the brilliant Kali-- strategist and computer programmer extraordinaire-- and the hottest, most sensual, kind, reckless, and fearless astronaut, Aeromancer.
As a fellow writer,I also enjoyed studying how Mr. Griffin solved writer problems. For example, like all writers, Mr. Griffin needed to start the novel out with a page turning BANG! And so the novel begins with a wild action, near-suicide mission, from the moon to earth, in which Kali, Aeromancer, and others attempt to rescue Kronos, against all odds. The writer problem here was how to sustain the action without digressing into all the background science. Mr.Griffin rightly chose to solve the problem by staying within the point of view (pov) of the protagonista Kali, even though it was not completely clear exactly what was going on and details were explained later. This was a masterful choice of direction by Mr. Griffin.
If you like to laugh out loud, if you like humor, and sexual humor, and erotica, and political satire, science fiction, and just plain old, all-out action, check it out.
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