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What would you do if you were rich, bright, vigorous, virtually immortal—and nearly bored to death?
You'd invent a thrill sport…
It's the 23rd century and Nasir Deepra is 248 years old, wealthy, kept young by all-pervasive nanotechnology, a corporate executive and bored with life. To spice things up he has become an Agonist, dipping into war zones--many of them in satellites orbiting the Earth--and filming his daredevil antics. Agonists have a large fan-base who watch them on the Net and they revel in the attention.
A war surf goes badly and the Agonists lose their top ranking amongst surfers, so they decide to up the ante and go to Heaven, a class 10 difficulty war zone, the toughest, in order to get back on top.
Nasir is reluctant to go since he's on the board of directors that controls Heaven and he knows why it's a class 10. His younger girlfriend, Sheeba, talks him into it and disaster strikes: Nasir and Sheeba are captured by workers who control Heaven. Nasir has to come to terms with the brutal exploitation he has been a part of and avoid the "disease" that runs rampant amongst Heaven's workers.
"An Innovative and exciting read. A treat." – C.J. Cherryh
"Buckner hits another homerun...action, character, drama, and great science - it's all here in the latest from the hottest author in this or any other star system." – Robert J. Sawyer
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Danny Darmono
reviewed War Surf on November 18, 2017
War Surf
I agree mostly with Ian regarding this book. The so-called adults in the novel speak and act like dim-witted teenagers. I thought that this might be the author's point and in some repects the children in the book do act more mature than the adults, but it was just too goofy and painful to read the things these people said and did. I mean food fights, really? The story is just too politically correct and heavy-handed. I wound up skimming pages toward the end just praying to get this over with. I usually don't finish books I don't like, but for some reason, I got through this one. I was always afraid to read this because of the cover, but as someone else indicated, the cover doesn't represent almost anything in the book.
It's hard to find good science fiction without relying on the old classics, so people put their trust in these "Award Winners" which is another roll of the dice. There is good and then there is bad. Sorry, this one was bad.
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