Coyote (Coyote Trilogy) - Softcover

Steele, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441011160 ISBN 13: 9780441011162

Publisher: Ace, 2003

Synopsis

Coyote marks a dramatic new turn in the career of Allen Steele, Hugo Award-winning author of Chronospace. Epic in scope, passionate in its conviction, and set against a backdrop of plausible events, it tells the brilliant story of Earth’s first interstellar colonists—and the mysterious planet that becomes their home...

About this title

About the Author:

Allen Steele was a journalist who covered the space program. He later turned to fiction writing, and his first novel, Orbital Decay, published by Ace Books, was chosen as the best first novel of the year by Locus. Allen himself went on to be nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He began writing and selling to the science fiction magazines and is a three-time Hugo Award winner for his short fiction. In 2013, he received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for outstanding published works in science fiction.

From Publishers Weekly:

At first, this novel from Hugo winner Steele looks like a fairly conventional tale of high-tech intrigue-in this case, rebels against a right-wing American dictatorship plot to steal the prototype interstellar spaceship built to immortalize the government's ideology by planting a colony of fanatics on another star's planet. However, once the freedom seekers arrive on the new world, Coyote, things get a lot more interesting. Coyote is habitable but alien, full of flora and fauna that upset the colonists' easy preconceptions. The young people, in particular, have to find their identities in a dangerous but wonderful environment; their discovery of what they can do individually as well as what they owe to the group nicely illustrates the name the starship's captain, R.E. Lee, has given their settlement: Liberty. That Steele's novel has been stitched together out of a series of short stories has advantages and disadvantages. The jumping around can be repetitious, but it also lets readers see the same events from different angles. By the same token, the narrative doesn't stay with individual characters, especially adults, long enough for the reader to get to know them, but it does give a panorama of the developing community. By the end, when an especially big challenge appears, the colonists are ready to face it confidently. The discovery of a new world is one of SF's most potent themes, and Steele handles it well.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ace
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0441011160
• ISBN 13: 9780441011162
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 448