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There is no question in my mind that Chris Moriarty is much smarter than I am. (Not that that is any great feat . . . .) Her newest book, Ghost Spin, demonstrates that she is a thoughtful, imaginative writer, whose vision for artificial intelligence spans the universe. It's an ambitious book, more ambitious than my little mind could enjoy.

Ghost Spin is set in the same future setting and returns characters from her previous novels Spin State and Spin Control, neither of which I have read. The novel opens as Cohen, an AI who is inhabiting a human body, shoots himself/the body in the head. His . . . wife, Li, . . . if that makes sense for an AI to have a wife . . . spends the rest of the novel seeking to find out what happened. In the course of the story, Moriarty takes the reader on a tour of the possibilities of sentient AIs who can exist in a variety of settings, including inhabiting humans.

The result is a confusing mess. The time frames shift inexplicably with flashbacks and changing perspectives. There are long passages of dialogue, including characters talking to the AI within themselves. When Cohen inhabits a ship's captain, there's a split-personality, dual identity thing happening. When Li comes along and sees her "husband" in the captain's body, I couldn't help thinking of Whoopi Goldberg/Patrick Swayzee and Demi Moore.

There is some awesome, solid speculative science in Ghost Spin. Besides AI, the world of the future comes alive with references to terraforming, faster-than-light space travel, and colonization that has dispersed humanity from a ravished Earth. But I had a hard time making myself enjoy the book. Halfway through I began skimming to the end. Again, I'm probably just not smart enough, not a careful enough reader, or maybe I should have read the other 2 books first.

Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!


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Ghost Spin The Spin Trilogy Chris Moriarty Books Reviews

After enjoying the first book in this trilogy, I found the second novel more fascinating and intriguing. I've waited for six years to see what would happen next - and I have to say I am just a little disappointed. The heady concepts are still there, but I found the general plot too predictable with no real surprises. I thought the action sequences a bit too quickly glossed over, and much of the novel consists of AIs and others standing around, just whining at each other.

Third time's the charm? Not in this instance.
This is the third book of Moriarty's "Spin" series, and it was excellent. If you have not read any of them, the first is called "Spin State" Moriarty has the wonderful ability to write so-called "hard" science fiction, while still creating highly entertaining plots and interesting characters. So many other science fiction authors focus too much on one area, leaving their books feeling somewhat flat.
Moriarty is manages to be both incredibly imaginative, and grounded in real cutting-edge science, another rarity in the genre. If you love to get caught up in great stories about the possible futures of humanity, this series of books is for you!
This is the third in a series and perhaps the most difficult for me to appreciate. This is not a quick read for the subway because the plot is too complex to follow without concentrating over much of the book.

But that also is why it was so rewarding. The concepts, relationships, personalities (human and machine) are very well developed and the details are carefully drawn to preserve that important "suspension of disbelief" element necessary for my enjoyment of any fantasy and science fiction novel.

I recommend reading the first two books (Spin State and Spin Control) before trying this one. The first is particularly rewarding.
After reading and enjoying the first two books in this trilogy, I was really looking forward to Ghost Spin and bought it on the day it was released. I just finished reading it this morning and feel rather disappointed by this conclusion to the trilogy. Ghost Spin continues the story of Catherine Li, following her on a quest to understand why her AI husband, Cohen, killed himself and to avenge his death. The story is incredibly dense with a great barrage of speculative science ideas hurled at the reader. A number of the characters and quite a bit of the motivation for their actions have their roots in the previous novels, and I can only imagine that readers who have not read the first two books will be quite lost.

I think my disappointment with this book comes from two directions. First, there is just a tremendous amount going on in the book but very little of it is really followed through in a logical and satisfying manner. Chris Moriarty has definitely done her homework in terms of turning up all sorts of interesting scientific concepts to pepper the book with. But in a lot of cases this just means incorporating real scientific terms in a sort of technobabble that sounds flashy and scientific but bears no connection to the real meaning of that science and is not explored in sufficient depth for the reader to really connect to the implications of what this sort of science would be. My second quibble with the book is that I think it was in need of some better editing. There are a few places where a character is called by the wrong name. I don't want to give anything away, but there are many characters in the book who appear in multiple versions or copies. This is confusing enough, as is, but when one of the copies is accidentally called by the wrong name it can become really bewildering. There are also a number of places where the action leads up to a major revelation only for the reader to find that the big reveal was actually previously stated as a casual fact 20 or 30 pages earlier. As a reader this feels like a major let down, and it happens at least 3 or 4 times.

There are some highlights to Ghost Spin including a few interesting characters, particularly Dolniak and LLewellyn. If you are familiar with the city of Pittsburgh you may also enjoy, as I did, reading about New Allegheny where the streets and neighborhoods are transfigurations of Pittsburgh, resurrected on a terraformed world. Overall, however, my feeling is that there is just so very much going on in this book but that very little of it connects to anything meaningful either in terms of the characters or the science. To me Ghost Spin felt like a lot of sound and fury with no emotional substance.
There is no question in my mind that Chris Moriarty is much smarter than I am. (Not that that is any great feat . . . .) Her newest book, Ghost Spin, demonstrates that she is a thoughtful, imaginative writer, whose vision for artificial intelligence spans the universe. It's an ambitious book, more ambitious than my little mind could enjoy.

Ghost Spin is set in the same future setting and returns characters from her previous novels Spin State and Spin Control, neither of which I have read. The novel opens as Cohen, an AI who is inhabiting a human body, shoots himself/the body in the head. His . . . wife, Li, . . . if that makes sense for an AI to have a wife . . . spends the rest of the novel seeking to find out what happened. In the course of the story, Moriarty takes the reader on a tour of the possibilities of sentient AIs who can exist in a variety of settings, including inhabiting humans.

The result is a confusing mess. The time frames shift inexplicably with flashbacks and changing perspectives. There are long passages of dialogue, including characters talking to the AI within themselves. When Cohen inhabits a ship's captain, there's a split-personality, dual identity thing happening. When Li comes along and sees her "husband" in the captain's body, I couldn't help thinking of Whoopi Goldberg/Patrick Swayzee and Demi Moore.

There is some awesome, solid speculative science in Ghost Spin. Besides AI, the world of the future comes alive with references to terraforming, faster-than-light space travel, and colonization that has dispersed humanity from a ravished Earth. But I had a hard time making myself enjoy the book. Halfway through I began skimming to the end. Again, I'm probably just not smart enough, not a careful enough reader, or maybe I should have read the other 2 books first.

Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!