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 | Gradisil by Adam Roberts | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Pyr
http://www.pyrsf.com ISBN: 1591025389 Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Sci-Fi Release date: Mar 2007 Format: Trade Pages: 464 Price: $15.00 | |||
| Decades after the last moon landing, NASA still struggles with strategic objectives and vision. Many of the wealthy class feel NASA is a failed earthbound bureaucracy that cannot get a mission to reach the stars. In 2059, wealthy American Kristin Janzen Kooistra makes a deal to pay an exorbitant fee to hide from her government in the “Uplands”. Now Gradisil’s grandfather has the finances to turn over the paradigm caused by that former Nazi von Braun when he persuaded the Americans to go fixed wing aircraft in the 1940s and 1950s. Thus he builds airtight flying houses to orbit Earth with families residing inside them that will be free of government intervention and intercession on their lives. Over the decades, however, the earthbound governments, especially the tax hungry United States, see things differently from the Utopian freedom lovers.
Told in three parts with the first two sections being novel length and the final segment more of a coda novella, Gradisil is a much more complex tale than the above paragraph provides, in order to avoid giving away what happens to those orbiting the planet. The storyline follows the orbiters over several decades, as a stratospheric Utopia is under increasing scrutiny from below. Key players like Gradisil come across as fully developed yet lacking a motive of why anyone would voluntarily live such a limiting lifestyle. It is sort of turning Swift’s of Gulliver Part III, "The flying island of Laputa", upside down; Adam Roberts captures the attention and imagination of cerebral science fiction fans with his tale of a nation in the sky formed from courage and conviction, not continual conquest. | |||
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