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The Cyanide Process
Dr. Gina Delgado had a perfect life – friends, money and a great career – until it all came crashing down. Now, faced with the possibility of a billion dollar lawsuit or even jail time, she has no choice but to accept exile on the distant mining planet of Xuizo.
To make matters worse she has to work for her nemesis, Samuel Greigsen, the very man who wrecked her career, on a mysterious research project. But Griegsen has his own agenda and is willing to go to any lengths to carry it out. On a planet covered it toxic pollution and threatened by both plague and pirates, Griegsen’s plot may pose the biggest peril of them all.
To make matters worse she has to work for her nemesis, Samuel Greigsen, the very man who wrecked her career, on a mysterious research project. But Griegsen has his own agenda and is willing to go to any lengths to carry it out. On a planet covered it toxic pollution and threatened by both plague and pirates, Griegsen’s plot may pose the biggest peril of them all.
- GenresScience Fiction
252 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2016
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About the author
Jennifer Rahn
20 books14 followersJennifer Rahn was born in Saskatoon, Canada and raised in Sherwood Park, Canada. She holds two degrees in Pharmacology and one in Medical Sciences (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology), all from the University of Alberta. She loves Shakespeare, manga, and anything written by Joan D. Vinge, Tanith Lee or Dean Koontz.
About Dark Corridor:
Pulled from her case before she could make the big bust, Adynn Sheffield is determined next time will be different; nothing will stop her from taking down the crime lords behind the sudden mysterious influx of strange and potentially dangerous technology. But everyone is playing a double game and before she can figure it all out, Sheffield goes from rogue cop to cyborg, mixed up with questionable corporations and space Vikings as they all seek out the dark corridor to the future.
About Dark Corridor:
Pulled from her case before she could make the big bust, Adynn Sheffield is determined next time will be different; nothing will stop her from taking down the crime lords behind the sudden mysterious influx of strange and potentially dangerous technology. But everyone is playing a double game and before she can figure it all out, Sheffield goes from rogue cop to cyborg, mixed up with questionable corporations and space Vikings as they all seek out the dark corridor to the future.
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January 20, 2019
There’s some interesting worldbuilding going on here. In particular, the disintegrating remnants of a now largely cyborg-driven semi-pirate fleet called the Yoshinogari is quite interesting. The member of the Yoshinogari we primarily deal with, Kurosawa, is also a very interesting character. For someone so ruthless, he has some fascinating good sides. Other characters are wonderful as well; Gina becomes friends with Leslie, one of the women brought in to make a match with one of the miners, and the two of them have a very expressive friendship. Their interactions become one of the most lively parts of the book, and Leslie’s character seriously improves Gina’s (up until Leslie’s arrival, Gina has been entirely sulking and morose).
The politicking is confusingly labyrinthine. It felt like there really wasn’t enough time in the universe to account for all that Gina’s boss, Samuel Greigsen, was up to. I expected his work to turn out to be more of a team effort, and I think that would have been more believable.
I must note for future authors: if you find yourself writing about how your main character is bored to tears over an extensive period of time, consider that the reader might be bored along with them. The in-depth discussion of mining processes is something I found seriously dull, and since a lot of the genetics material was at a level over my head, it read largely as technobabble to me. For reference, I’ve recently had college-level basic bio and anatomy, but haven’t taken any particularly genetics-oriented classes. If you have, you might find this material more engrossing than I did. The story didn’t entirely pull me in until more than 90 percent of the way through the book, at which point it actually became quite interesting. Much of what makes the Yoshinogari particularly noteworthy happens during that last ten percent.
As a minor note, but something spelling nitpickers might care about: hopefully at some point the author will learn the difference between discrete and discreet. Also, the Kvinesdal Elite mercenaries, who show up in a good chunk of the book, seem to get their name misspelled in multiple ways.
This is a decent book, but it just didn’t wow me, and it definitely had a few flaws.
Original review posted on my blog: http://www.errantdreams.com/2019/01/r...
The politicking is confusingly labyrinthine. It felt like there really wasn’t enough time in the universe to account for all that Gina’s boss, Samuel Greigsen, was up to. I expected his work to turn out to be more of a team effort, and I think that would have been more believable.
I must note for future authors: if you find yourself writing about how your main character is bored to tears over an extensive period of time, consider that the reader might be bored along with them. The in-depth discussion of mining processes is something I found seriously dull, and since a lot of the genetics material was at a level over my head, it read largely as technobabble to me. For reference, I’ve recently had college-level basic bio and anatomy, but haven’t taken any particularly genetics-oriented classes. If you have, you might find this material more engrossing than I did. The story didn’t entirely pull me in until more than 90 percent of the way through the book, at which point it actually became quite interesting. Much of what makes the Yoshinogari particularly noteworthy happens during that last ten percent.
As a minor note, but something spelling nitpickers might care about: hopefully at some point the author will learn the difference between discrete and discreet. Also, the Kvinesdal Elite mercenaries, who show up in a good chunk of the book, seem to get their name misspelled in multiple ways.
This is a decent book, but it just didn’t wow me, and it definitely had a few flaws.
Original review posted on my blog: http://www.errantdreams.com/2019/01/r...
March 25, 2019
This is a solid Sci Fi outing that proves a story built around rigorous, hard science doesn't have to be done at the expense of plot or character. Jennifer Rahn delivers on all three counts, and even works in some exciting action scenes to boot. Definitely worth your time!
January 28, 2018
A well crafted adventure in which brains trumped brawn when the pinch came.
October 18, 2019
fairly decent story, Kind of what I would expect if Robin Cook wrote a scifi book. Very well done.
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