Poor Man's Sky
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Publisher Description
THE LUNAR MONASTERY TAUGHT PEOPLE HOW TO LIVE IN SPACE . . . AND THEN ONE OF ITS STUDENTS WAS MURDERED
Who owns the future?
Homicide detective Raimy Vaught is a losing contestant in the biggest reality show ever: the colonization of Mars. Brother Michael is a Benedictine monk who just wants to help the future happen. Andrei Bykhovski is an asteroid miner desperately escaping indentured servitude. Bridget Tobin is a hydroponic farmer studying the greenhouses of Luna.
But when a fellow Mars contestant drops dead at a Lunar monastery, these four souls will find themselves on a collision course with forces far beyond the control of trillionaires or nation states. As labor disputes erupt across cislunar space, the actions of individual people will determine whose future will prevail . . . and whose will perish.
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About Rich Man’s Sky:
“Action SF built on a hard foundation of cutting-edge science.” —Walter Jon Williams
“An action-crammed story that darts at hyper-speed from Burning Man, Nevada, to Suriname to a convent on the Moon to an orbiting colony that’s clearly up to something. A jam-packed adventure fizzing with mind-blowing concepts, and a great read!” —Connie Willis
“A hard science fiction tour de force, populated by memorable characters in a tale of intrigue, adventure, and irresistible market forces.” —Linda Nagata
Engineer/novelist/journalist/entrepreneur Wil McCarthy is a former contributing editor for WIRED magazine and science columnist for the SyFy channel. A lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, he has been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, Seiun, AnLab, Colorado Book, Theodore Sturgeon, and Philip K. Dick awards. His short fiction has graced the pages of Analog, Asimov’s, WIRED, and SF Age, and his novels include the New York Times Notable Bloom, Amazon.com “Best of Y2K” The Collapsium (a national bestseller), To Crush the Moon, and Antediluvian. He has also written for TV, appeared on The History Channel and Science Channel, and published nonfiction in half a dozen magazines.
Previously a flight controller for Lockheed Martin Space Launch Systems and later an engineering manager for Omnitech Robotics and founder/president/CTO of Raven Brick LLC, McCarthy hold patents of his own in seven countries, including twenty-nine issued U.S. patents in the field of nanostructured optical materials.
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The Moon is in turmoil in McCarthy's dissonant sequel to Rich Man's Sky. Earth-based homicide detective Raimy Vaught wants nothing more than to be chosen as one of the first 100 people competing to colonize Mars. Instead he's shipped to the moon to solve a fellow contestant's murder at a Lunar Monastery. The contaminated crime scene combined with Raimy's need to depend on the help of his chief suspects to survive makes for an unusual procedural, but there's little tension. Meanwhile, an elite group of trillionaires who have expanded into space are rocked by labor disputes. McCarthy makes the odd choice to keep the focus on the trillionaires throughout this plotline, sapping the emotion out of the workers' desperation as their problems are dealt with dismissively by their wealthy overlords. The dual narratives never effectively gel as Raimy uncovers some damning evidence and strike negotiations come to a head aboard Clementine Cislunar Fuel Depot. Series fans will enjoy the depth McCarthy adds to this world through these two disparate narratives, but there's little else to recommend this one on.
