Attunga

by Peter Wood

When Calen encounters a baby dolphin with special abilities life on a great space habitat in the Asteroid Belt changes forever. He and his friends become involved with Artificial Intelligences in a conflict over domination of the Solar System.

589 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 14, 2017

Reviews

[S White · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well done!

Escape from the ordinary. Watch over the shoulders of 3 extraordinary boys as they grow up under optimal circumstances.
Space habitats. Nanotechnology. Strength through compassion.
What more do you need for a fantastic read?

[Alison Rowe · Rating 5 out of 5]

So different from anything else I have read.
Dolphin lovers will be enraptured.
The climax is so dramatic, but DON'T CHEAT!!!.
This book has started my interesrt in Science Fiction.
Buzz.

[Wayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought this book might be interesting, I like space and AIs and sci fi exploration of both concepts, unfortunately it felt like I was on a journey with 3 Marty Stus and a Dolphin Messiah. The four main characters such as they were had no flaws and were fantastic at their chosen interests allowing them to bypass years of work with little explanation for their talents in those fields. Well except the super magical dolphin who at least had genetic engineering to explain why it was the best at everything ever.

I was confused as to why everyone loved the talking dolphin so much and why they devoted so many resources to them. I was also lost from all the time skips as to how old the three main characters were supposed to be by the end of it. None of them had a birthday during the book despite months? years ? going by...

So many meetings and conversations about meetings that happened and meetings that haven't happened yet and what happened at meetings and reactions to meetings and... yeah.

I felt like there was some kind of attempt at foreshadowing about how special Wirrin was supposed to be but I stopped caring after the 4th mention of it because it never went anywhere.

I also have no idea what the big deal was about trios, is it a roundabout way of describing a throuple ? a team of three? something else ?

This book felt like it needed another run through an editor, my version had this odd sentence "watching the dolphins ahead porpoise at speed", I could have done with about half the Australian references insults/descriptions galah, dingos, wombats all felt over used. Feels like too much stuff crammed into too little space with the weakest of antagonists.

[Nicki Markus · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am not a huge Sci-Fi reader, but I came to this story after editing the author's second book--he sent me a copy of this one as a thank-you. Overall, I loved the concept of the tale, which is certainly fresh and original. At times, I would have liked some tighter pacing, and for the principal characters to have a few flaws, to make them seem more rounded. But nonetheless, this was a delightful, imaginative piece and I would certainly read more from the author in the future. 3.5 - 4 stars.

[Peter Wood · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel like I'm cheating because this is my book but I have had a lot of feedback from people saying they loved the story.
One reader told me he's read Attunga four times already.