Tenebrea Rising by Roxann Dawson and Daniel Graham
Book three of the Tenebrea Trilogy finds Andrea Flores on a desparate mission to rescue her mentor Hal K'Rin and his elite Tenbrea from certain death in Klamdara prison. In order to effect the rescue she has engaged the wilderness clone Brigon and his brigade of followers. In the meantime, the Cor Ordinate has plans to wipe out the Jod fleet and become the supreme power of the Alliance. On a third front, Tara, a Precinct clone, is planning the takeover of Sahrn, the capital city of the Cor Ordinate. How will these plans affect Andrea's quest for revenge against the Cor Hunters who killed her husband and daughters? Was it really the Cor Hunters who were ulitmately responsible for the deaths?
Tenebrea Rising was a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy, but not as engrossing a read. Perhaps it is not the book's fault. Perhaps it was up against stiff competition as I had just finished reading Aftermath, a top-of-the-line story.
Earth has suffered an unexpected natural disaster: Supernova Alpha Centauri. The supernova has become a second sun, destroying everything in the southern hemisphere and severely crippling the northern.
The story focuses on several groups of people: The president of the U.S.A. and his staff; Three cancer survivors who are desparate for continued treatment even if it means placing their trust in a convicted child murderer; the returning Mars Expedition--how will they get back to Earth when all of the computers they have been counting on for reentry were fried in a second wave, a gamma burst from the supernova?; and the "Eye of God" a prophetess who sees the Alpha Centauri super nova as a chance to takeover and shape the post nova society into her own image.
This is the first book I have read by Charles Sheffield. At first, I thought it was ho-hum, just another disaster novel. But, the story soon became more than that, developing into a compelling read. There is a sequel Starfire (Bantam Spectra Book) which takes place 50 years beyond the events of Aftermath, when the super nova's third wave is scheduled to arrive and threaten all life on Earth.
Of all the books I remember reading, the one I think should have made the list is Flowers for Algernon.
And what about 2001: A Space Odyssey? I'm absoulutely floored it isn't on the list!
The time is the mid-twenty-first century. The setting is an Earth under the control of The United World Government. Ty Merrick is a Marshall charged with bringing murderers to justice.
When the wife of a powerful District councilman is murdered, it is Ty and her partner LaRue who are hot on the trail of the killer. It is no ordinary case for it involves the trafficing of "Quantum," an illegal drug, as well as the trafficing of human lives in an ultra-top-secret project. Is the project to benefit humankind or exterminate world populations.
As if searching for the killer isn't enough, Ty is dealing with the onset of the full moon. A time when her own lycanthrope is nearing it's most intense stage. How ironic (and unfortuante for the killer) that the killer is planning his next murder to occur during the full moon.
Quantum Moon is a different sort of book. It is undoubtledly a murder mystery, a werewolf story, and science fiction all rolled into one. Ty is a most interesting character. Her pragmatic approach to the world in which she lives, a world filled with superstition, magic charms, and a seemy underworld, is in the tradtion of all great detectives.
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