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Lost in Space: Promised Land
Lost in Space Hopelessly lost in the trackless depths of interstellar space, the Jupiter Two, piloted by John and Maureen Robinson, is suddenly beamed aboard a starship the size of a small planet. Inside is a place beyond imagination where secret dreams can seemingly come true. Is this the Eden the Robinsons longed for when they first blasted off from a polluted, dying Earth? Or is it something more sinister? Are they honored guests--or helpless prisoners? The answer soon becomes clear as John and Maureen Robinson, their children, Penny, Will, and Judy, and their crewmates, the murderous stowaway Dr. Zachary Smith and swaggering fighter jock Don West, face their biggest challenge yet.
One of today's most popular authors, award-winning "Queen of Cyberpunk" Pat Cadigan gives an exciting new spin to science fiction's most popular series in this authorized original novel that continues the adventures of the Robinsons begun in the hit film Lost in Space. This all-new Lost in Space combines the nonstop thrills of the classic serieswith an exciting contemporary edge
Promised Land
One of today's most popular authors, award-winning "Queen of Cyberpunk" Pat Cadigan gives an exciting new spin to science fiction's most popular series in this authorized original novel that continues the adventures of the Robinsons begun in the hit film Lost in Space. This all-new Lost in Space combines the nonstop thrills of the classic serieswith an exciting contemporary edge
Promised Land
Mass Market Paperback
First published March 3, 1999
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About the author
Pat Cadigan
263 books435 followersPat Cadigan is an American-born science fiction author, who broke through as a major writer as part of the cyberpunk movement. Her early novels and stories all shared a common theme, exploring the relationship between the human mind and technology.
Her first novel, Mindplayers, introduced what became a common theme to all her works. Her stories blurred the line between reality and perception by making the human mind a real and explorable place. Her second novel, Synners, expanded upon the same theme, and featured a future where direct access to the mind via technology was in fact possible.
She has won a number of awards, including the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award twice,in 1992, and 1995 for her novels Synners and Fools.
She currently lives in London, England with her family.
Her first novel, Mindplayers, introduced what became a common theme to all her works. Her stories blurred the line between reality and perception by making the human mind a real and explorable place. Her second novel, Synners, expanded upon the same theme, and featured a future where direct access to the mind via technology was in fact possible.
She has won a number of awards, including the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award twice,in 1992, and 1995 for her novels Synners and Fools.
She currently lives in London, England with her family.
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January 6, 2016
Pretty interesting read for fans of "Lost in Space"
This is a novel based on the re-imagined 1998's film, set right after the events of it.
DANGER! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!
When I was a kid, here in my country, Costa Rica, we didn't get to watch Star Trek, so my Trekkerism started later.
When I was a kid, the Sci-Fi TV shows that I enjoyed to watch were Space: 1999, Battlestar Galactica (the original one) and Lost in Space.
And of all those three, the one that some particular local channel aired more was precisely Lost in Space, in a seemed eternal rerun for almost all my childhood, so I almost got to know by memory each episode from season 2 & 3 (first season was real rarely aired here).
And so, I learn to love the TV series, sure, it was campy, but I was a kid so I didn't mind that at all, and know I liked to watch the old TV series with nostalgic feeling without bothering its campy style.
Back then, in 1998, a brand-new film about Lost in Space was on theaters, and you can bet that I was real excited about it, though I objected the casting of William Hurt as "Profesor John Robinson" or maybe not as much the casting decision but the script decision to portrait him more like a "Reed Richards" than a "John Robinson", hey, I am fan of Fantastic Four and I like Reed Richards but it doesn't mean that I like someone like him as John Robinson.
Anyway, the film wasn't too good, but it wasn't so bad, now thinking of it in a retrospective way, since if the complain was to "re-imagined" it with a darker tone, well, the first season of the original TV series was just like that and also, not many years later, the "re-imagination" of Battlestar Galactica was precisely as a darker tone of the original concept, so it could be said that this poor failed film of Lost in Space, maybe it helped a bit to seed the soil for a "new era" of bringing back some TV cult Sci-Fi series. Even a pioneer on CGI effects that now some of them (specially the first sequence) look like something played on a Playstation 1, but at that moment, it was a bold step to try to impress the audiences.
Actually, I think that the "biggest sin" of this "re-imagined" project was "losing confidence" that they will be able to pull a trilogy, true, it didn't happen, but at that moment it was impossible to know, and therefore, maybe a simpler script that specially in the "third act" got too complicated inserting "time travel" elements into the plot.
NEVER FEAR, SMITH IS HERE
Anyway, since I can't help to be a Lost in Space fan, when I knew about the novels and even I watched them in a shelf of a bookstore, you can bet that I had to buy them.
Honestly, but keeping in mind my love for the general concept of the franchise, not matter if the original campy TV series or the darker film, I really think that this novel Promised Land was way good.
The story lets to shine to all the crew and it wasn't the old typical Dr. Smith-Will-and-Robot plot.
Pat Cadigan, the author, really constructed an interesting Sci-Fi plot letting that each member of the Jupiter 2's crew is having something relevant to do during the development of the story.
And even the author was way clear on the differences on this remake of the characters, you have a darker, dangerous and unpredictable Dr. Smith (more like the first season of the TV series, while I have to confess that I like too the cowardly and scheming one of the following seasons), a Judy with medical background (one of the best improvements to characters introduced in the film), etc...
Maybe the plot of finding a place who offers you everything for free is kinda cliché with clear expectations of how it will evolve, but having it developed in the wonderful company of the Jupiter 2's crew was a such a rewarding treat that it made for me a truly great reading.
If you still are fan of Lost in Space (not matter if only of the TV series or even a bit of the failed film) and you are able to find this novel, I think that you won't be disappointed reading it.
This is a novel based on the re-imagined 1998's film, set right after the events of it.
DANGER! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!
When I was a kid, here in my country, Costa Rica, we didn't get to watch Star Trek, so my Trekkerism started later.
When I was a kid, the Sci-Fi TV shows that I enjoyed to watch were Space: 1999, Battlestar Galactica (the original one) and Lost in Space.
And of all those three, the one that some particular local channel aired more was precisely Lost in Space, in a seemed eternal rerun for almost all my childhood, so I almost got to know by memory each episode from season 2 & 3 (first season was real rarely aired here).
And so, I learn to love the TV series, sure, it was campy, but I was a kid so I didn't mind that at all, and know I liked to watch the old TV series with nostalgic feeling without bothering its campy style.
Back then, in 1998, a brand-new film about Lost in Space was on theaters, and you can bet that I was real excited about it, though I objected the casting of William Hurt as "Profesor John Robinson" or maybe not as much the casting decision but the script decision to portrait him more like a "Reed Richards" than a "John Robinson", hey, I am fan of Fantastic Four and I like Reed Richards but it doesn't mean that I like someone like him as John Robinson.
Anyway, the film wasn't too good, but it wasn't so bad, now thinking of it in a retrospective way, since if the complain was to "re-imagined" it with a darker tone, well, the first season of the original TV series was just like that and also, not many years later, the "re-imagination" of Battlestar Galactica was precisely as a darker tone of the original concept, so it could be said that this poor failed film of Lost in Space, maybe it helped a bit to seed the soil for a "new era" of bringing back some TV cult Sci-Fi series. Even a pioneer on CGI effects that now some of them (specially the first sequence) look like something played on a Playstation 1, but at that moment, it was a bold step to try to impress the audiences.
Actually, I think that the "biggest sin" of this "re-imagined" project was "losing confidence" that they will be able to pull a trilogy, true, it didn't happen, but at that moment it was impossible to know, and therefore, maybe a simpler script that specially in the "third act" got too complicated inserting "time travel" elements into the plot.
NEVER FEAR, SMITH IS HERE
Anyway, since I can't help to be a Lost in Space fan, when I knew about the novels and even I watched them in a shelf of a bookstore, you can bet that I had to buy them.
Honestly, but keeping in mind my love for the general concept of the franchise, not matter if the original campy TV series or the darker film, I really think that this novel Promised Land was way good.
The story lets to shine to all the crew and it wasn't the old typical Dr. Smith-Will-and-Robot plot.
Pat Cadigan, the author, really constructed an interesting Sci-Fi plot letting that each member of the Jupiter 2's crew is having something relevant to do during the development of the story.
And even the author was way clear on the differences on this remake of the characters, you have a darker, dangerous and unpredictable Dr. Smith (more like the first season of the TV series, while I have to confess that I like too the cowardly and scheming one of the following seasons), a Judy with medical background (one of the best improvements to characters introduced in the film), etc...
Maybe the plot of finding a place who offers you everything for free is kinda cliché with clear expectations of how it will evolve, but having it developed in the wonderful company of the Jupiter 2's crew was a such a rewarding treat that it made for me a truly great reading.
If you still are fan of Lost in Space (not matter if only of the TV series or even a bit of the failed film) and you are able to find this novel, I think that you won't be disappointed reading it.
February 25, 2023
2.5 stars.
A way to make a buck for Cadigan. In this one Smith is a drug addict. They land on a moving world and are almost assimilated into the genetic material of the whole, but are rescued (for, really, reasons unknown) by one of the denizens. Multiple point of view from all the characters makes a very superficial book. I hope she regains her mind.
A way to make a buck for Cadigan. In this one Smith is a drug addict. They land on a moving world and are almost assimilated into the genetic material of the whole, but are rescued (for, really, reasons unknown) by one of the denizens. Multiple point of view from all the characters makes a very superficial book. I hope she regains her mind.
June 18, 2013
Promised Land is an authorized original novel set after the events of the 1998 Lost in Space movie. The book is not written very well. The author could have done a lot better, especially in the beginning of the novel. It's as though the author didn't quite know what to do with the characters. If I were in charge of the Lost in Space property, I might have rejected this novel or ask that it be rewritten. The "plot" does come together somewhat in the end. I would say this is a novel for hardcore Lost in Space fans.
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