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Contact #1
2012 Lunar Contact
An alien civilization has come to our system and it's not Earth they are interested in. It is the riches of our moon. Unfortunately their mining of the moon threatens Earth. An intrepid group of astronauts are given the mission of making contact with the aliens that have so far ignored humans. What follows is anything but what was planned, as they get swept up into a war between beings that travel space and operate on a technology beyond Newtonian physics.
- GenresScience FictionFiction
257 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 1, 2012
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July 25, 2012
When I read the premise for this book I was intrigued. Sure enough the novel starts out the way the synopsis describes but shortly after it takes the hell off and keeps going way beyond any lunar contact. Its like climbing up a hill just to see another hill in your path. I had no idea this book was going to take it as far as it did. The characters in this story accomplish some some major feats that is way beyond their level or even realm of expertise and kept doing it. In other sci-fi stories you just except that they pull this stuff out of there butts, use some quantum physics dialogue/explanation and you go with it. However in this story everything they accomplish can be satisfactorily explained because of the new technology they acquire and learn to use.
If I have to have one complaint its that sometimes the really complicated problems get solved too easy and/or quickly. Then the story's momentum makes you forget about how easy that was and then another complicated problem comes up and it happens again. After a while you just expect for the good guys to always prevail without worrying about them too much.
I can honestly say this book was fun and i am looking forward to future SCIFI novels from these authors. In fact it is highly possible this story could continue in a sequel.
(disclaimer: when I like a story I always ignore things like grammar, spelling or science fact when reviewing or rating a novel)
If I have to have one complaint its that sometimes the really complicated problems get solved too easy and/or quickly. Then the story's momentum makes you forget about how easy that was and then another complicated problem comes up and it happens again. After a while you just expect for the good guys to always prevail without worrying about them too much.
I can honestly say this book was fun and i am looking forward to future SCIFI novels from these authors. In fact it is highly possible this story could continue in a sequel.
(disclaimer: when I like a story I always ignore things like grammar, spelling or science fact when reviewing or rating a novel)
May 20, 2016
Hard to put down as you want to read the next chapter......Easy to read with characters that you quickly become familiar with.
October 12, 2020
Good space opera
Great action, good science, good sociology and psychology. Would have liked more exploration of sex with the neural nets. Great read!
Great action, good science, good sociology and psychology. Would have liked more exploration of sex with the neural nets. Great read!
September 2, 2021
A good tale of true sci-fi
The story was well told.. the computer threat rings very possible. I was intrigued with the description of Unity city and their weapons.
The story was well told.. the computer threat rings very possible. I was intrigued with the description of Unity city and their weapons.
August 11, 2013
I choose "it was ok" in my goodreads stars because it was exactly that.
The real maincharacter are never really in danger unfortunately they and the readers know that all the time, there is no suspense and now real sense of danger in this whole book.
Another thing that probably could be seen as minor spoiler is that they never return to earth, this is one of these "lone spaceship" kind of novels that pop out like weed in the indie scifi scene. I wrote this because i would have wanted to know that before i bought the book.
neither are the characters very believable nor is the science in the book (the author does not even try to explain anything).
I do not understand why this kind of book is getting more and more popular, that they do not return to earh and play the lone ranger shit is not just totally unresponsible it is also very very dumb and unbelievable. That they go to fight a Empire of KIs with only 5 people is just a joke and not a very good one either.
All that reenforces the thing i stated first, they are never in real danger and they know it, so they can have a nice little adventure in the stars and kill some bad bad robots while they are at it.
Conclusion: The book started interesting enough, got badder and badder can not recommend it, also to say this is science fiction really stretch the meaning. Even Pherry Rhodan had more science in it than this book!
The real maincharacter are never really in danger unfortunately they and the readers know that all the time, there is no suspense and now real sense of danger in this whole book.
Another thing that probably could be seen as minor spoiler is that they never return to earth, this is one of these "lone spaceship" kind of novels that pop out like weed in the indie scifi scene. I wrote this because i would have wanted to know that before i bought the book.
neither are the characters very believable nor is the science in the book (the author does not even try to explain anything).
I do not understand why this kind of book is getting more and more popular, that they do not return to earh and play the lone ranger shit is not just totally unresponsible it is also very very dumb and unbelievable. That they go to fight a Empire of KIs with only 5 people is just a joke and not a very good one either.
All that reenforces the thing i stated first, they are never in real danger and they know it, so they can have a nice little adventure in the stars and kill some bad bad robots while they are at it.
Conclusion: The book started interesting enough, got badder and badder can not recommend it, also to say this is science fiction really stretch the meaning. Even Pherry Rhodan had more science in it than this book!
October 19, 2012
Begrepet "Lunar Contact" i tittelen er ganske så misvisende da dette først og fremst bare refererer til hvordan historien begynner. Det første inntrykket jeg fikk var en mix av "Rendez-vous with Rama" og "2001", men etter de første kapitlene dras historien langt lenger slik at sammenligningene ikke lenger blir gyldig. Riktignok er det mange elementer her man finner i mange klassiske sci-fi-bøker, men som Umberto Eco sier så blir nye bøker alltid til blant gamle bøker og aldri i et vakuum. Det er sant også for denne boken.
Det jeg personlig likte med denne boken var at det er få lange landskapsbeskrivelser og mer handling og dialog. Teknobabbelet var også rimelig greit da de representerte en såpass fremmed teknologi at det ikke blir knotete når ting skal forklares. Det blir vel kanskje litt langt å skulle kalle den filosofisk, men at den kan gi et par tanker i en eller annen retning er ikke umulig. Det er likevel ikke en "WOW!"-bok, men betegnelsen 4 av 5 stjerner (="really liked it") sier vel sitt.
Det jeg personlig likte med denne boken var at det er få lange landskapsbeskrivelser og mer handling og dialog. Teknobabbelet var også rimelig greit da de representerte en såpass fremmed teknologi at det ikke blir knotete når ting skal forklares. Det blir vel kanskje litt langt å skulle kalle den filosofisk, men at den kan gi et par tanker i en eller annen retning er ikke umulig. Det er likevel ikke en "WOW!"-bok, men betegnelsen 4 av 5 stjerner (="really liked it") sier vel sitt.
October 8, 2012
The title alone on this book made me want to read it. After the first several pages I was hooked. I really enjoyed reading this book. To me this was true scifi, no fantasy, not Star Trek-ish story. I was disappointed in the ending because I wanted to know more. I felt the author should have really addressed the main goal of the characters before ending this book. Overall though it did NOT disappoint!
July 29, 2012
A fast paced space thriller that does not dwell on details. Rating it on the scale of science fiction hardness, it would fall in the range of Pampers. Comparable to Dan Brown's novels since highly improbable events happen whenever they would be beneficial for the main characters.
December 3, 2012
Pretty interesting book ... just found out there was a second book, so I'll be borrowing that soon ... this one kind of just ended, and without knowing that there was a second book, I was a little disappointed, but overall a good read ...
June 25, 2013
I liked the story but not necessarily the [rushed & erratic] flow of the story. It was a short book and so is the next one, so I'm going to check out that one as well since I already have it downloaded. ;)
October 4, 2012
Surprisingly good.
October 9, 2012
Sort of John Campbell like with accelerated hardware development but not that good.
December 5, 2012
4.25 Fun space caper that may have gotten a bit too tied up in playing with machines.
January 30, 2014
This is an okay read but could use another book to finish the story.
December 4, 2012
new Rendezvous with Rama
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