Chill

I'm afraid that I won't be able to review this book as seriously as I originally intended. I wanted to read it as an adventure and a novel of chase, because that's how it felt, but I got sidetracked by alienish and outright aliens being bred in the bowels of the generation ship. I wanted to get wayl......more

2 Stars This book is barely a 2 star read after a decent start with book 1 Dust. Very little happens in this book and the characters that made book 1 great are reduced down to paper thin shells. I was bored at times reading this and am truly shocked that I pushed through to the end. Elizabeth Bear is......more

Elizabeth Bear's Chill is the second in her Jacob's Ladder series. I described the first in this series as part of a "frequently disorienting, occasionally downright trippy, always original and thoughtful trilogy." Chill was less disorienting – except in terms of tracking who the 12-15 central chara......more

WARNING: No spoilers for Chill, but plenty of spoilers for Dust. Chill picks up almost directly after Dust ended, when the ship is reeling from the nova blast and the crew is reeling from all of the deaths, particularly Rien's sacrifice to bring the new angel -- an A.I. integrating all of the splinte......more

Dust was a fantastic novel that reminded me of Wolfe's Dying Sun series. Couched in mythic/fantasy language, but set far in the future. Chill is Dust's sequel and sadly, not as good as it's prequel. The world-ship Jacob's Ladder has suffered some cataclysm which has left it adrift. The crew is at war......more