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Old Twentieth
Jacob Brewer is a virtual reality engineer, overseeing the time machine's operation aboard the starship Aspera. But on the thousand-year voyage to Beta Hydrii, the eight-hundred member crew gets more reality than they expect when people entering the machine start to die.
Book Details
- Publisher: Berkley / Nal
- Publish Date: Aug 1st, 2006
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 6.84in - 4.23in - 0.83in - 0.33lb
- EAN: 9780441013432
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Science Fiction - General• Thrillers - Technological
About the Author
More books by Joe Haldeman
What people are saying
Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Shirley Jackson finalist. Books: THE WINGSPAN OF SEVERED HANDS, THE COUVADE, CONVULSIVE. He/They
WOW this show 1899 sure dropped the ball. What a crap denouement. Like, if you're going to pull that old it was all a dream shtick at least add some dimensionality, for instance Joe Haldeman's Old Twentieth. But I did enjoy every scene featuring my betrothed. https://t.co/okF3EFk3I5
Praise for this book
The time machine has become sentient. Obsessed with humanity, it wants Jacob Brewer to enter its confines--and discuss this fragile state of being called life..."Fun."--Philadelphia Weekly Press
"In [Old Twentieth, Haldeman] does a creditable job of maintaining suspense through chapters that alternate between historically accurate yet fictitious encounters in virtual reality and more mundane conflicts aboard a ship."--San Francisco Chronicle "Haldeman's vivid prose captures . . . tense, violent encounters . . . [He] knows from personal experience the grunt's-eye view of combat; that lends a power and impact to the passages. He doesn't glorify war but, instead, shows its ugly, human face."--The Baltimore Sun
"The back story to Haldeman's latest foray into future history is delivered with wham-bam Wellsian nonchalance . . . [His] virtues are all present here. Tight plotting, believable (and believably flawed) characters, sharp dialogue, bravura leaps of future history, affirmations of the human spirit. Everything we enjoy about his books."--Science Fiction Weekly "Haldeman makes [Old Twentieth] compelling with his usual brilliant knack for detail and characterization . . . Haldeman's numerous fans will eagerly snap this one up."--Publishers Weekly
"Worthy of Hugo and Nebula nominations."--Midwest Book Review "Reality and virtuality aren't as well-defined as we may assume they ought to be in Haldeman's nicely circular story concerned with the consequences of immortality and the potential of a truly convincing virtuality."--Booklist
What people are saying
Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Shirley Jackson finalist. Books: THE WINGSPAN OF SEVERED HANDS, THE COUVADE, CONVULSIVE. He/They
WOW this show 1899 sure dropped the ball. What a crap denouement. Like, if you're going to pull that old it was all a dream shtick at least add some dimensionality, for instance Joe Haldeman's Old Twentieth. But I did enjoy every scene featuring my betrothed. https://t.co/okF3EFk3I5