| Title | : | Return to Enceladus (Ice Moon, #4) |
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| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
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| Publication | : | First published September 25, 2017 |
Everyone on board knows that their benefactor acts out of purely personal motivations... but the true interests of the tycoon and the dangers that he conjures up are beyond anyone's imagination.
Return to Enceladus is the fourth book in the bestselling Ice Moon series that started with The Enceladus Mission.
Bonus: A guided tour to the Asteroid belt – what science actually knows.
Return to Enceladus (Ice Moon, #4) Reviews
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Im 4. Roman der Eismond-Trilogie (klingt komisch, ist es aber nicht) erklärt der Autor die Vorgeschiche seiner neuen Trilogie (oder Serie), bzw. einen Teil der Vorgeschichte von
Proxima Rising.
Bekanntlich ist dort der virtuelle Dimitri Marchenko an Bord des Mikro-Raumschiffes in Richtung Proxima Centauri. Das Raumschiff wird mittes Laser im Sonnensystem auf ca. 20% der Lichtgeschwindigkeit beschleunigt.
In Enceladus - Die Rückkehr wird die Besatzung der ILSE vom russichen Oligarchen Schostakowitsch gebeten, nochmals in geheimer Mission zum Saturnmond aufzubrechen, um dort einen der Laser zu montieren, die in der Proxima-Mission gebraucht werden, von dieser Mission ist aber hier keine Rede, die Besatzung der ILSE weiß nichts davon. Schmackhaft wird der Besatzung diese Mission gemacht, um den Körper von Marchenko auf dem Mond zu bergen und Schostakowitsch verspricht, das virtuelle Bewustsein Marchenkos von seiner Hardware, einem Quantencomputer, wieder in seinen richtigen Körper zu transferieren...
Das ist grob gesagt, die Gemengenlage der Besatzung, was die Sache aber undurchsichtig macht, ist dass niemand genau hinterfragt, was Schostakowitsch mit den Lasern vorhat und warum seine Tocher, die mit an Bord ist, versucht Genproben des Lebewesens in Enceladus-Ozean zu bergen, um dies zu verwirklichen, ist ihr jedes Mittel recht, dies klang für mich etwas unglaubwürdig.
Genauso wie die Tatsache, dass die Besatzung erpresst wird mit der Herausgabe des virtuellen Marchenkos.
Der Roman versucht, die unglaubliche technologischen Sprünge, die in Proxima Rising beschrieben werden, zu erklären, was m.E. aber nicht gelungen ist. Zu glatt ist auch hier die Handlung beschrieben, es erscheint mir doch etwas zu konstruiert, wenn man sieht, wie die Besatzung überredet wird; dass niemand von dieser Mission etwas mitbekommt und wie die ILSE schließlich erreicht wird; wie die KI des Schiffes überredet wird usw.usf.
Deshalb ist dies von allen Romanen, die ich bisher von Brandon Q. Morris gelesen habe, der schwächste. Aber dennoch bewegt er sich, mit dem Thema Hard Science, in der oberen Hälfte der Qualitätsskala, was das Genre in Deutschland sonst zu bieten hat... -
... gute Unterhaltung mit ein paar groben Inhaltlichen Schnitzern. 3.5 Punkte
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Sin duda el mas flojo de toda la serie “Luna Helada” de haber sido yo el autor habría dejado las cosas tal y como estaban en el tercero. Cerrando así la saga como mereceria.
Da la sensación de estar escrito a trompicones, y totalmente a brújula (rota)
Tiene tantas incongruencias que no puedo contarlas. Quizás el primer libro fuera Hard Scifi, pero eso con el paso de los tomos se ha ido diluyendo hasta entrar en la Fantasia de este libro.
Una lastima, sin duda. -
|4,0*|
Ein gelungener Abschluss für die Serie. Wem die erste Bände gefallen haben, der wird auch Spaß beim lesen dieses Buchs haben.
Ich fand überraschend, dass Morris eine spannende Geschichte aus einer Rückkehr zu Enceladus machen konnte, die großen Überraschungen waren hier ja vorweg genommen. Aber die Stärke der Bücher liegt eben nicht in den Wendungen, sondern in den immer neuen Schwierigkeiten, die immer neue Lösungen der Crew erfordern und das ist hier wieder gelungen. Es ist eine Serie für Ingenieure, und solche die sich dafür interessieren. -
This review addresses the entire series of The Enceladus Mission, which consists of four full-length novels: The Enceladus Mission, The Titan Probe, The Io Encounter, and Return to Enceladus. Read in sequence as most characters traverse all four books, as does the story.
Plot. A group of astronauts from several countries responds to a probe signal coming from the moon of a distant planet indicating potential life. Through the four novels, space travel is defined in painfully intricate detail. The entire series consists of a series of mundane problems, occasionally life-threatening, that arise with regularity - one after another. Expected relationships between characters develop, including a pregnancy. Shipboard AI's misbehave, save the day, stuff goes wrong, stuff gets fixed, etc.
Liked. The Enceladus Mission series is pure SciFi. The "what-if" possibilities are there, which in my opinion, makes the best SciFi. No drooling zombies, aliens with clicking knees, jump scares. No sex, no gratuitous profanity. Coincidently? Breakthrough Enceladus is a proposed privately funded astrobiology mission to look for macrobiotic life in the volcanic eruptions of water emanating from the moon - true - Google it.
Not so hot. Wording isn't particularly smooth - no contractions; more effort should have been applied to story rather than space technology, which can be boring to some readers. The ending left much unanswered.
Written by Brandon Q. Morris, narrated by Doug Tisdale Jr., each book in the area of eight hours of listening, all books released 2019.
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Teilweise war das Ganze sehr einseitig und hat sich deswegen etwas gezogen. Das Ende konnte aber wie schon im Ersten Teil für vieles entschädigen.
Wenn ich den letzten Satz richtig verstehe geht es in "Proxima Rising" weiter mit der Geschichte.
Gut, dass ich das E-Book schon habe. :D -
Thoroughly enjoyed it like I have the previous books. However the ending was so anticlimactic for me. It just ended so abruptly. I had to re read it a couple of times because I still hadn’t quite processed how it all ended. Final rating is a 3.5 because of the ending.
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My feelings on this volume are similar to the 3rd: I enjoyed the majority of the story but felt the ending was somewhat of a let down. There was a decent story, cooking right along, and then -- Ok, we're at the end now, hope you enjoyed the ride. My feeling is the author is so focused on the next episode for these characters that the ending of one volume suffers in the effort to leave a "hanger" for the next volume.
I do like the author's writing and will likely continue reading his other work. Maybe because I hope the others are more satisfying. -
Boy, did this book suck. I am wary now of any writer who claims to be writing "hard science fiction," especially someone who feels compelled to put that in the title of their novel. It usually means they did their homework in regards to physics, chemistry, and astronomy, and everything else is FAIL. Their story world and characters show they have little grasp of sociology and psychology, their biology knowledge is half-researched, half hand-waved (non-sensical alien species, forex), and in the case of this story series, the artificial intelligence angle is complete FANTASY.
I don't disagree that someday we might have very human-like and intelligent A.I.s, but you can't hand-wave how they got that way. You need to give some plausible background DETAILS based on current trends in A.I. and cybernetics. Most especially if you are writing near-future sci-fi. Ignoring the explanation is what makes it fantasy, and bad fantasy at that, because at least fantasy writers follow clear ground rules in their stories regarding what is allowed and what isn't.
Also? This author needs to jettison the audiobook narrator. He just makes trite material sound even more trite. -
Financed by a Russian billionaire who has his own reasons for sending the crew back to Enceladus, the crew of the ILSE return to Enceladus to retrieve Marchenko's body. The billionaire's daughter daughter takes the place of Hayato who remains behind to care for Sol. The crew hopes to make contact with the entity on Enceladus and somehow reunite Marchenko's consciousness with his body.
As with previous books in this "Ice Moon" series, the author's familiarity with the solar system and all things astronaut is evident in his storytelling. The adventures, good or bad, are based on real science and could very well happen in the near future. This added realism makes the characters well-being even more meaningful to the reader.
While not exactly a sequel, the next book is "The Hole" and after that is "Jupiter". Hopefully, by the time I finish "The Hole", Jupiter will be available for Kindle. It is out in paperback right now. -
Return to Enceladus: Hard Science Fiction (Ice Moon Book 4) by Brandon Q. Morris
I liked the characters, but the plot sucked.
Yes, really. And the characters are pretty much flat, and one dimensional as well. It seems that the author would really much rather be lecturing on the geography of distant moons, instead of telling a story. And the chopped up ending he provided in this book didn't do a proper job of ending th book, nor the series. I hope he improves, as he does have potential. -
Good story & thoughts about life forms.
Mr. Morris says there is more to this story. It sort of seemed like the tragic end to a hopeful future and encounter with another couple of life forms including AI, ALIEN "Slime", and of course human personalities. The problem is that all the relationships end badly. So, we'll see, I guess. -
Es el cuarto libro de la serie que se inició con Misión Encelado.
El autor le da continuidad a la historia con un segundo viaje a Encelado del ILSE y su tripulación.
En mi opinión es el más bajo de los cuatro libros y aunque el autor busca nuevos recursos, la historia no logra mantener el nivel. Con todo si se mira la serie completa de los cuatro libros, sigue siendo una buena saga, con buen balance de conocimiento científico aplica e imaginación. -
Still interesting in the "what if" category. But the writing style really falls flat in this one, imo.
Maybe it's from reading these in quick succession, but it's just not energizing me at this point. Thankfully, done with the series (at least as it currently stands). -
No me gustó del todo la premisa de Shostakovitch y su oferta, pero me gusta el ser de Encélado y fue una aventura que tuvo su punto. Me entretuvo, pese al resultado (ahora que lo pienso, es un poco extraño esto de Marchenko IA).
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Book Review:
“Return to Enceladus: Ice Moon Book 4” by Brandon Q. Morris
This is, indeed, an entertaining novel! Morris does an excellent job of portraying the alien life form.
I shall begin reading Book 5 in this series today.
Highly recommended!
