Lightpaths
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Publisher Description
Roger Cortland came to the Orbital Complex to continue his life's work in virtual reality, Marissa Correa to observe this Utopian society up close, and Jhana Meniskos to student the "Orbital Park," the station's biodiversity preserve. But no utopia is safe--from corruption, from sabotage, from corporate greed. And when this "perfect" world begins to unravel, all three will have to fight to protect their work--and their lives!
"An exhilarating intellectual tour of both an amazing orbital habitat and a dizzying complex of ideas." —Michael Bishop
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hendrix offers a fresh look at a familiar SF concept: life on a space station, here called the orbital complex. In an opening reminiscent of 2001, characters wing their way to Hendrix's space-faring community, which floats over an Earth decimated by Nanogedon, a military disaster that left 125 million dead but also brought the world's nations and corporations together in one last effort to repair the planet's ecology and insure peace. Characters such as billionaire brat Roger Cortland, his utopian-scientist mother, Atsuko, and corporate spy Jhana live in a low-gravity, high-tech world that's cyberpunk-slick and ineffably postmodern; although one wonders why, in a bajillion-dollar O'Neill-esque space habitat, there are so many grunge-wearing techno-teens mouthing schmaltzy rock lyrics. But whatever Hendrix lacks in musical facility he compensates for in his creation of a credible and realistic utopia that ultimately must unite against an aggressive Earth to insure its own, as well as humanity's, survival. Taut, engaging, even occasionally reassuring, Hendrix's novel leaves readers wishing for another portion of this space-age slice of life.
