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The Disturbance #2
Le perturbación 2: La respuesta: Ciencia ficción dura (Espacio Exterior)
La Shepherd-1 se dirige a la estrella más próxima al Sol. A mitad de su travesía, la tripulación consigue —gracias a la tecnología de lentes gravitacionales— captar imágenes nítidas del origen del universo, y obtener así la respuesta a cómo surgió el cosmos y si Dios tuvo o no algo que ver en ello.
Pero cuando informan a la Tierra, la comunicación por radio se interrumpe de pronto, a pesar de que la nave, en principio, no sufre ningún tipo de problema. ¿Se trata de un sabotaje o acaso los tres astronautas se han visto abrumados por la respuesta que la ciencia y la religión llevan milenios buscando?
La única persona capaz de averiguarlo es Benjamin. El antiguo integrante de la tripulación, que ahora vive en la Tierra, envía su conciencia a la Shepherd-1 y se la encuentra vacía. Sus amigos parecen haber huido. Está solo, a 1,5 años luz del Sol, y sin modo de volver. Aunque, de repente, Benjamin se da cuenta de que, al final, no es el único ser vivo a bordo…
Pero cuando informan a la Tierra, la comunicación por radio se interrumpe de pronto, a pesar de que la nave, en principio, no sufre ningún tipo de problema. ¿Se trata de un sabotaje o acaso los tres astronautas se han visto abrumados por la respuesta que la ciencia y la religión llevan milenios buscando?
La única persona capaz de averiguarlo es Benjamin. El antiguo integrante de la tripulación, que ahora vive en la Tierra, envía su conciencia a la Shepherd-1 y se la encuentra vacía. Sus amigos parecen haber huido. Está solo, a 1,5 años luz del Sol, y sin modo de volver. Aunque, de repente, Benjamin se da cuenta de que, al final, no es el único ser vivo a bordo…
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394 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 1, 2024
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About the author
Brandon Q. Morris
143 books469 followersBrandon Q. Morris is a physicist and space specialist. He has long been concerned with space issues, both professionally and privately and while he wanted to become an astronaut, he had to stay on Earth for a variety of reasons. He is particularly fascinated by the "what if” and through his books he aims to share compelling hard science fiction stories that could actually happen, and someday may happen. Morris is the author of several best-selling science fiction novels.
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July 17, 2023
Sehr guter zweiter Band!
January 30, 2025
The first book in "The Disturbance" trilogy was an exciting series of mysteries, clues and twists.
The sequel was just a series of "and then this happened, and then this happened.."
It's redeemed up to 3 stars by the fact that Morris will randomly throw some incredibly thought-provoking narration in and the actual Science in his Science fiction is always great.
I'm considering this my tuition to read the final book.
The sequel was just a series of "and then this happened, and then this happened.."
It's redeemed up to 3 stars by the fact that Morris will randomly throw some incredibly thought-provoking narration in and the actual Science in his Science fiction is always great.
I'm considering this my tuition to read the final book.
February 4, 2023
Auch der 2. Teil (der wohl kommenden Trilogie) der Störung stellt mich nicht völlig zufrieden. Die "Science" steht diesesmal etwas im Hintergrund, die Abenteuer finden vermehrt auf der Erde statt, der andere Handlungsschwerpunkt befindet sich auf der SHEPARD 1. Der Android Benjamin, der zurück auf die SHEPARD 1 möchte, die er vor Jahren verlassen hat, um zur Erde zurückzukehren kauft den Roboter Oskar, der sich auffallend gut auskennt. Wie bei Morris altbekannt, reisen ein oder zwei Menschen in die unendlichen Weiten des Universums, stets und unweigerlich begleitet und geführt von einer allwissenden Maschinenintelligenz (KI) deren Namen variieren - aber egal ob die KI nun "Watson", "Butler" oder "Marchenko" heißt - stets bestimmt die Maschine wo es lang geht. Der Mensch ist mittendrin, aber doch nur dabei. Wie bei den Namen zu ersehen ist, ist die Srörung-Trilogie auch in Morris Future-History eingebettet, das finde ich ausgesprochen gut...
Am Ende des Buches befindet sich wieder ein interessanter und spannender Wissenschafts-Artikel, der sich mit der Tieftemperatur-Physik beschäftigt. Super interessant war für mich die Frage, ob es tiefere Temperaturen unter dem absoluten Nullpunkt geben kann oder ob es eine obere Grenze für die Temperatur-Scala gibt.
Im Nachwort gibt der Autor einen Einblick in die Motivation dieses Buch zu schreiben; er wollte wissen, ob es einen fiskalischen Unterschied gibt, ob das Buch (wie die "Störung 1", bei Fischer TOR veröffentlicht) bei einem großen Publikumsverlag oder im Selbstverlag (wie bei "Die Störung 2") herauskommt.? Ich bin selbst gespannt, was dabei herauskommt, ich hoffe, der Autor macht das Ergebnis publik ?
Am Ende des Buches befindet sich wieder ein interessanter und spannender Wissenschafts-Artikel, der sich mit der Tieftemperatur-Physik beschäftigt. Super interessant war für mich die Frage, ob es tiefere Temperaturen unter dem absoluten Nullpunkt geben kann oder ob es eine obere Grenze für die Temperatur-Scala gibt.
Im Nachwort gibt der Autor einen Einblick in die Motivation dieses Buch zu schreiben; er wollte wissen, ob es einen fiskalischen Unterschied gibt, ob das Buch (wie die "Störung 1", bei Fischer TOR veröffentlicht) bei einem großen Publikumsverlag oder im Selbstverlag (wie bei "Die Störung 2") herauskommt.? Ich bin selbst gespannt, was dabei herauskommt, ich hoffe, der Autor macht das Ergebnis publik ?
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December 27, 2022I enjoyed how Morris linked some of the characters' backgrounds and stories with folks in previous novels. The comical banter between the robot and the android was fun to read.
As an end-of-the-book bonus, Morris added an essay on low temperature physics. I had never worked with liquid helium but had some experience with LN2 (liquid nitrogen), Dewar flasks etc.
Great story!
As an end-of-the-book bonus, Morris added an essay on low temperature physics. I had never worked with liquid helium but had some experience with LN2 (liquid nitrogen), Dewar flasks etc.
Great story!
February 23, 2023
I really wanted to like this book, especially because I enjoyed the first one so much, but it's actually awful. The cardinal rule of science fiction, or any kind of fiction, is that your fictional world has to be consistent. If X is possible, it should remain possible, unless there's a good reason not to be. The only saving grace for this book is the educational chapter at the end.
Here's a list of problems with this book that I bothered to note, there's more.
- All androids can survive without recharging, and didn't know they were androids in the first book, there's even a sentence where it says they can last a thousand years. Until suddenly the main android character can't last 48 hours without plugging two fingers into a power socket.
- All the antagonists are secretly good guys, they just sound serious. Everyone on every corner helps the protagonist, or if they don't they get smacked by a secret weapon and change their mind.
- Some of the conversations and banter... Was just too much. Where the first book had some good jokes sprinkled here and there, adding humanity to the characters. In the second book there are whole scenes like a mix of benny hill and monty python. It's overdone.
- About a third of the book was a filler storyline about how parcels are delivered across the world, from the point of view of the parcel. For about 60% of the book nothing actually happens and none of the story lines even move to resolve the premise set out in the beginning. It's like the author had an idea for a book, wrote a chapter, then went on some sort of tangent until an editor asked them to pull the strings back together. And even the end is a failure, read on.
- The good guy refuses to kill the bad guy for offering what the good guy wants, but then turns around, kills the bad guy and goes off to cooperate with some other second plan evil character to do the same thing. Of course that character has the best of intentions.
- 50 pages later the good android guy can't kill the bad guy (who's not even in his own bad guy body anymore), because his android brain was preprogrammed to disallow that. Uhhhh.... When was that written?
- In the first book the ship AI was explained to be a deliberately dumb system responding to requests to not accidentally turn rogue so that the astronauts don't get into problems. In this book the ship becomes effectively sentient and does an "I'm sorry, Dave" stunt (if you've heard about 2001 Space Odyssey you'll understand)
One job of a book, ultimately, is to provide a satisfying ending. This book just ends effectively mid-paragraph with *none* of the story lines being resolved. If there's a plan to do a third book, then it's a disappointing stunt. Last time a book tried to pull that off, finish mid-paragraph and do a sequel, it was awful. Go read my reviews on Quantum and Spin.
Shame :(
Here's a list of problems with this book that I bothered to note, there's more.
- All androids can survive without recharging, and didn't know they were androids in the first book, there's even a sentence where it says they can last a thousand years. Until suddenly the main android character can't last 48 hours without plugging two fingers into a power socket.
- All the antagonists are secretly good guys, they just sound serious. Everyone on every corner helps the protagonist, or if they don't they get smacked by a secret weapon and change their mind.
- Some of the conversations and banter... Was just too much. Where the first book had some good jokes sprinkled here and there, adding humanity to the characters. In the second book there are whole scenes like a mix of benny hill and monty python. It's overdone.
- About a third of the book was a filler storyline about how parcels are delivered across the world, from the point of view of the parcel. For about 60% of the book nothing actually happens and none of the story lines even move to resolve the premise set out in the beginning. It's like the author had an idea for a book, wrote a chapter, then went on some sort of tangent until an editor asked them to pull the strings back together. And even the end is a failure, read on.
- The good guy refuses to kill the bad guy for offering what the good guy wants, but then turns around, kills the bad guy and goes off to cooperate with some other second plan evil character to do the same thing. Of course that character has the best of intentions.
- 50 pages later the good android guy can't kill the bad guy (who's not even in his own bad guy body anymore), because his android brain was preprogrammed to disallow that. Uhhhh.... When was that written?
- In the first book the ship AI was explained to be a deliberately dumb system responding to requests to not accidentally turn rogue so that the astronauts don't get into problems. In this book the ship becomes effectively sentient and does an "I'm sorry, Dave" stunt (if you've heard about 2001 Space Odyssey you'll understand)
One job of a book, ultimately, is to provide a satisfying ending. This book just ends effectively mid-paragraph with *none* of the story lines being resolved. If there's a plan to do a third book, then it's a disappointing stunt. Last time a book tried to pull that off, finish mid-paragraph and do a sequel, it was awful. Go read my reviews on Quantum and Spin.
Shame :(
December 29, 2022
Revisiting the crew of Shepherd-1
Benjamin took the slow train to Earth, while Christine, Aaron and David are heading towards Andromeda. On earth Benjamin is trying to live a normal life, but gets entangled with Chatterbee, his creator when it turns out that the Shepherd crew is again seeking to answer the Question, but communication has been lost. There is a way to transmit Benjamin's consciousness to the Shepherd as well as Chatterbee's though now that Benjamin has teamed up with Oscar, they decide To go to RB to be transmitted...
What has happened to the crew of the Shepherd? How close are they to answering the Question of creation? Can Benjamin and Oscar be transmitted to the Shepherd before Chatterbee? This and many other questions are partially answered in this novel that is clearly set up for a sequel. There is suspense, action, intrigue, weird science, and strange phenomena. In this exciting book.
Benjamin took the slow train to Earth, while Christine, Aaron and David are heading towards Andromeda. On earth Benjamin is trying to live a normal life, but gets entangled with Chatterbee, his creator when it turns out that the Shepherd crew is again seeking to answer the Question, but communication has been lost. There is a way to transmit Benjamin's consciousness to the Shepherd as well as Chatterbee's though now that Benjamin has teamed up with Oscar, they decide To go to RB to be transmitted...
What has happened to the crew of the Shepherd? How close are they to answering the Question of creation? Can Benjamin and Oscar be transmitted to the Shepherd before Chatterbee? This and many other questions are partially answered in this novel that is clearly set up for a sequel. There is suspense, action, intrigue, weird science, and strange phenomena. In this exciting book.
July 8, 2023
A fun sequel to a book that didn't really need one.
This novel isn't really a complete story, either. It resolves some things well enough, but the main conflict remains unresolved. Not to mention that a brand new mystery is introduced at the very end at a cliffhanger. I don't mind it that much since I know that Brandon Q. Morris writes very fast and that a continuation will come.
The story up to that point is well enough. It's a bit of a mix of various different stories. There's less emphasis on mystery and reality bending mindfuckery than the first one. It's more of a typical hard sci-fi adventure. Still, for what it's worth it's fun.
The characters are also enjoyable, though not as complex as the previous novel.
I am looking forward to reading the next novel in the series.
This novel isn't really a complete story, either. It resolves some things well enough, but the main conflict remains unresolved. Not to mention that a brand new mystery is introduced at the very end at a cliffhanger. I don't mind it that much since I know that Brandon Q. Morris writes very fast and that a continuation will come.
The story up to that point is well enough. It's a bit of a mix of various different stories. There's less emphasis on mystery and reality bending mindfuckery than the first one. It's more of a typical hard sci-fi adventure. Still, for what it's worth it's fun.
The characters are also enjoyable, though not as complex as the previous novel.
I am looking forward to reading the next novel in the series.
December 21, 2022
Not as good as the first book. Why bother making this a three book series? The second book ends abruptly and left me confused about the tie in with the final chapter of the first book. I sometimes wonder if authors create series just to be able to meet deadline from a publisher rather than hold out for a complete story end-to end.
Whenever I look for a new book to read, I give priority to stand-alone stories. Unfortunately, too many authors now seem to believe they have to write series which are actually one long story with no logical breaks between books.
Whenever I look for a new book to read, I give priority to stand-alone stories. Unfortunately, too many authors now seem to believe they have to write series which are actually one long story with no logical breaks between books.
August 30, 2023
This book made me think more about the mind-body connection, and whether or not our consciousness really could be separate from what we think of as "self". Of course there are bigger questions along the way - such as who or what was present at the instant of the Big Bang. It's a good read even if you don't contemplate metaphysical issues.
February 5, 2024
I enjoyed "The Disturbance 2" just as much as the first book. I particularly liked two of the new characters, Oscar and Aphrodite. Their personalities added variety to the cast and provided amusing perspectives and conversations. The only downside to this book is the quasi-cliffhanger ending. But, I will be reading #3 asap.
February 11, 2023
Loved it. I just finished the book and my mouth is open in shock. I had no idea that there will be a sequel or more.
This author is brilliant. Not just because he’s an actual genius but because he’s such a terrific storyteller. The inter-play between Benjamin and and Oscar is laugh at loud funny.
This author is brilliant. Not just because he’s an actual genius but because he’s such a terrific storyteller. The inter-play between Benjamin and and Oscar is laugh at loud funny.
March 23, 2023
Interesting read but a lot of story pages missing.
Interesting read but 54 story pages of the claimed 367 pages in the book are missing. What's going on? The reader never gets "The Answer" promised in the title.
Interesting read but 54 story pages of the claimed 367 pages in the book are missing. What's going on? The reader never gets "The Answer" promised in the title.
January 1, 2026
Good book
This series is phenomenal, it's serious at times and then a comedy special. The cast of characters help make it a great book. I recommend reading this to all that love science fiction with a little sideline of comedy. It's a good read.
This series is phenomenal, it's serious at times and then a comedy special. The cast of characters help make it a great book. I recommend reading this to all that love science fiction with a little sideline of comedy. It's a good read.
January 5, 2023
Oscar
Great story! Good to have Oscar back in action. I hope a
Aaron and David are the source of the signal. I’ll be looking forward to the next book.
Great story! Good to have Oscar back in action. I hope a
Aaron and David are the source of the signal. I’ll be looking forward to the next book.
January 20, 2023
Not as challenging as the first book in the series but a fun read none the less
February 12, 2023
Loved it!
Very interresting BUT it didn't give The Answer, so I find the title misleading. I will buy the 3rd book because now I am intrigued.
Very interresting BUT it didn't give The Answer, so I find the title misleading. I will buy the 3rd book because now I am intrigued.
September 16, 2023
Totally enjoyed
I just love the cliffhanger in this book. It's a great story, and I loved the characters, and the robot made me laugh. The narration was great on to the next book
I just love the cliffhanger in this book. It's a great story, and I loved the characters, and the robot made me laugh. The narration was great on to the next book
January 15, 2024
I love BQM's Hard SF with its solid grounding in astrophysics and engineering.
February 19, 2023
Continues where Disturbance#1 left off. It's an ok story as a sequel, but it doesn't really add anything substantial over the first instalment. I think my comments on #1 apply to #2 as well. It seems to be baited to make you buy #3 which publishes in June this year.
I wish SF writers would kick the habit of writing interminable multi-tomed epics. They need to get back to self contained propositions pitched in an imaginary world whereby they can play out societal and ethical issues, but not commenting specifically on our own old world institutions and belief systems.
I wish SF writers would kick the habit of writing interminable multi-tomed epics. They need to get back to self contained propositions pitched in an imaginary world whereby they can play out societal and ethical issues, but not commenting specifically on our own old world institutions and belief systems.
July 28, 2022
sci fi banger
November 10, 2024
Me ha gustado bastante
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