Recruited by a driven research-and-development major, Maj. It’s more capable and more advanced than her comrades’ ones: it’s a prototype AI, and she’s its first field test. But Adrienne’s Rubicon is different, as she discovers in the middle of a mission. That hardware includes a virtual intelligence connected to her brain, the titular Rubicon. Even if that means dying for good.Īfter her latest traumatic resurrection, she’s unexpectedly reassigned to a special forces unit – one where people don’t get killed with nearly such frequency – promoted to sergeant, and provided with cutting-edge military hardware in order to carry out her new missions. Every time, she’s resurrected into a fresh ‘‘husk’’ and redeployed to the front lines of her people’s struggle against the mechanical hivemind, the Mechans, that’s keeping them penned in a dying star system, and she wants nothing more than for it to stop. Specialist Adrienne Valero has died 96 times since her enlistment. Dewes’s third published novel after The Last Watch and The Exiled Fleet, offers a fresh setting and different approach to military-flavoured space opera than Dewes’ previous work. please won't SOMEBODY do this right? Honestly, Heinlein himself would have been a better choice for reader, and he DIED TEN YEARS BEFORE THE RECORDING! 5 stars for the book. What do we, Heinlein's adoring public, have to do to get a decent multi-media treatment of this book!? The movie was garbage, the audio's miserable. Ganser, Marc Vietor, Stefan Rudnicki, or even Mark Boyett (all readers who not only do Sci-Fi well, but have a particular talent in military pieces) to do the reading escapes me.
This is on the must-read list of anyone who claims to be a SF-aficionado.
It literally defines much of what we think of the genre (and has absolutely nothing to do with the utter tripe they released as a movie). The book is a pinnacle piece of Military Science Fiction, and should be enjoyed by anyone even vaguely interested in the genre.
What can I say? Not only did they take one of the great sci-fi pieces of all time, they got BEN STEIN to read it! Sure, the site claims it was this "Lloyd James" fellow, but I'd know that dead flat, utterly emotionless drawl anywhere! I assume it's a pseudonym. Incredible book! Incredibl(y bad) narrator!
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