Logos Run (Runner) - Hardcover

Dietz, William C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0441014283 ISBN 13: 9780441014286

Publisher: Ace, 2006

Synopsis

Runner Jak Rebo is on a mission to deliver the legendary A.I. known as Logos to a mysterious backwater planet. Once there, Logos can restore the system of star gates that once knitted the settled worlds of the universe together. But as the Techno Society wars with murderous antitechnics, Rebo gets caught in the middle-and all he can do is run.

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About the Author

William C. Dietz grew up in the Seattle area, spent time with the Navy and Marine Corps as a medic, graduated from the University of Washington, lived in Africa for a year, and has traveled to six continents. Dietz has been variously employed as a surgical technician, college instructor, news writer and television producer, and currently serves as Director of Public Relations and Marketing for an international telephone company.

Reviews

At the start of Dietz's fast-moving sequel to Runner (2005), human civilization is about to lapse into a new dark age after the collapse of an interstellar empire threatens to isolate many of the inhabited worlds. However, the web of star gates that once spanned the empire may be reactivated if the duo of super-courier Jak Rebo and ESP-sensitive Lonni Norr can deliver the shape-changing AI, Logos, to the control center housed in the artificial satellite of a remote planet. Antitechnology fanatics would do anything to prevent that, the unscrupulous Techno Society craves the power that will accompany control of the restored network, and Logos has selfish plans of its own. In addition, the disembodied spirits of dead characters hang around to influence the action and sometimes to possess the bodies of the living. In a military SF novel that will entertain readers with a taste for cheerfully casual mayhem, much treachery and betrayal ensue, and there's seldom a dull-or quiet-moment.
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Dietz's stories have in common intrigue, action, romance, and a well-realized setting. Here the intrigue comes from runner Jak Rebo's efforts to deliver an artificial intelligence named Logos to its destination. The romance comes from Jak's sensitive female companion. The action comes from everybody else and their brother-in-law trying to stop this run. And the setting is a postholocaust universe that Logos may help to recover and that meanwhile recalls H. Beam Piper's classic Space Viking (1963). Roland Green
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Edition details

• Publisher: Ace
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0441014283
• ISBN 13: 9780441014286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368