Sufficiently Advanced Technology Inverse Shadows Book 1 eBook Christopher Nuttall
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The Confederation, a multi-planetary post-singularity society, desperately wants to know how to achieve transcendence into an Elder Race. Their scouts encounter Darius, a lost colony world whose inhabitants have apparently discarded the technology that brought them to the planet, in order to adopt a virtually feudal culture.
But the scouts are shocked when they discover that the controlling elite, in each of the major centres of population, exhibit abilities that defy the accepted laws of physics. Although the population appear to believe their leaders to be capable of performing sorcery, the Confederation concludes they must in fact be using a technology sufficiently advanced to seem like magic. Is it a technology left behind by long-gone Elders, or an indication of an advanced race trying to control the colony – perhaps one of a number of such races who are intent on meddling in human affairs?
Either way, the need to understand and utilise such a technology leads the Confederation Security Council to launch an urgent mission to investigate Darius. Suitable specialists are swiftly enlisted to create a team, including both scientists and AIs, but all under military control. Protocol dictates that stealthy infiltration should precede initial contact, but the lack of sufficient prior observation and analysis will make it harder for the team to establish a credible cover story. Although their ship can remain in a hidden orbit, the research team will be on their own once they land, especially as Confederation technology seems to be unreliable or even inoperative on the planet’s surface. But they will soon discover that the people on Darius are not all the simple folk that they seem.
This is the first book in the exciting new epic Inverse Shadows universe from best-selling science fiction author Christopher Nuttall.
Sufficiently Advanced Technology Inverse Shadows Book 1 eBook Christopher Nuttall
This is the first of Chris' books I've read (and probably the last, at least until more books in the series are released).I couldn't put it down, but am EXTREMELY disappointed to find there is no Book 2.
The book ends with significant unfinished story lines that demand resolution.
I only recommend it if you can deal well with unresolved endings.
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Sufficiently Advanced Technology Inverse Shadows Book 1 eBook Christopher Nuttall Reviews
Though not a fan of fantasy works, the technical underpinnings of "magic" promised by this novel tempted me to read it. I was not wholly disappointed. The revealed explanation, however, was fairly sketchy, as I suppose it had to be. Regarding character development, I found the embodied artificial intelligence (AI) Dacron and the apprentice Joshua the most compelling characters. The others, even the principle protagonist Emily, to be fairly shallow.
Pro interesting story with reasonable action and logical conclusion
Con the author used the title cliche too often - once was enough - we get it
This is a difficult review to write because i wanted to like these books. I realize every "invaders from space" book is influenced by the movie Independence Day. In the final analysis, that is not my problem with these books.
Nuttall has some good ideas but has a difficult time moving the story along. When he stalls, his "go to" plot device almost every time involves sex. I kept hoping it would get better but it didn't. Had I been his editor, I would have challenged him to write without those scenes not because I'm some kind of prude but rather, the scenes did not advance the story or tell us anything more about the characters or aliens. i don't know if the author felt like he had to include them to sell his book. I hope not. There are some good ideas in the pages, it just took a long time to get there and the stops at all the various bedroom doors did not help the process.
OK, I mean "it's okay" as 's rating system says. Really. If you can handle Nuttall's expository style (rather than genuine narrative - but then all his books are that way). He has some clever ideas in here, and he has some interesting and credible human emotions that mix with them to produce unexpected results. My main complaint is that for the overall plot he basically just does a re-take on the well-worn Star Trek theme of a computer-like device taking over and ruling a flawed paradise planet. Then he cannot conceive of any way to communicate except basically "shoot to kill." Nuttall rationalizes his plot well, but I just do not accept that such a clever machine would be so unable to anticipate its own demise and choose to communicate instead of predictably destruct.
At the very end, due to the interplay of emotions, and the fact that the goal of the machine was to reach beyond this one planet, an interesting situation develops. But that's all, end of book, and sequel not yet available, so I could give a better rating based on this slight of hand at the end. However, I will keep a lookout for the sequel.
"Sufficiently Advanced Technology" has the vibe of American science fiction from the 1950s to me. It has that same unshakeable personal confidence in the minds of the characters, linear plot of a puzzle that will be solved, and presumptive "our culture is the right culture" that stemmed from America's global ascendency after WWII.
That's not a bad thing per se, and I quite enjoyed the novel, just don't expect a subtle or intricate plot. And while there are apparently 352 pages (of which probably 15 are publishing fluff), it certainly did not feel that long, so light was the content.
The premise is that Darius, an apparently Human-settled world, is in a place where it should not possibly be, with citizens who appear to have magic at their command. That can't be...or can it?
An apparently experienced survey team is sent to find out and their collective lack of both common-sense and rational behaviour lands them, and the citizens of Darius, in hot water. And thus the fun begins.
Nuttall provides quite a lot of detail around the characteristics of fallen colonies and I liked that. Unfortunately, most of the characters are actually caricatures and that was not so good. Certainly, the survey team repeatedly exhibit an appalling lack of professionalism, even as one of them muses that perhaps that's what the High Command who initiated the mission actually wanted/expected.
And don't expect any real explanation for any of the technology deployed. Apart from some mutterings about control of the 'quantum foam' being the cause of the magic, Nuttall is 100% presumptive with regard gadgets just working. So we have AIs, FTL, teleportation, matter assemblers etc., as well as aliens (mostly in the background because this novel is Human-centric) and pretty much no personal or cultural taboos. That's OK, but as Nuttall spends a lot of time explaining cultural norms, it seemed a little lazy to me. There were also some unexplained inconsistencies - you can't teleport in a Peacekeeper ship. No reason is given (well, if it was I missed it and I went back to look) and it's typical of the many throwaway observations that tickle your WTF bone but are not explained.
There are a small number of grammar glitches, which was disappointing for both the price and because this is from a publisher, Elsewhen Press.
But it's light and fluffy sci-fi and if you can accommodate a survey team who seem to have inherited Basil Fawlty's DNA, then you'll likely enjoy "Sufficiently Advanced Technology".
I am having to unlearn my belief that higher priced novels from major publishers are necessarily better than low priced works from small, specialist houses. I am definitely adding Christopher Nutall's name to my list of preferred SciFi authors. And the bargain price makes it great value. This remote-future novel of a world where magic rules on a single world within a universe otherwise dominated by advanced technology (think "the Culture") is a very entertaining read. It satisfies at a number of different levels. The characters are well developed and credible. The science dots and crosses all the right i's and t's. Even the magic is rendered plausible. And the story line is what justifies the "well contrived" in my title. Why four stars, rather than five? I was left with the feeling that the conclusion was better as grounds for launching a sequel than as a resolution of all the issues raised in the novel. But overall, a very satisfying read.
This is the first of Chris' books I've read (and probably the last, at least until more books in the series are released).
I couldn't put it down, but am EXTREMELY disappointed to find there is no Book 2.
The book ends with significant unfinished story lines that demand resolution.
I only recommend it if you can deal well with unresolved endings.
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