Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1887 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 603 pages

Starburst
'ambitious, clever and ultimately rewarding...Impressive.'

SFX
'a gripping interplanetary saga close in tone to both Alistair Reynolds and Peter F Hamilton, but with enough edge and imagination to give it its own unique flavour...a seriously entertaining sci-fi pageturner.'

Death Ray
'Stealing Light is remarkably free from the thick soup of description and metaphor normally associated with books of its genre'

Customer Reviews

Tripe
Painfully badly written and the plot has more holes that the proverbial.

I struggled through it as I was told "it starts out badly but gets better stick with it", well it started out badly alright and just got worse. There was the odd glimmer of hope with some interesting ideas early on but it was all just too hokey for words. The `plot twists` are so heavy handed it's embarrassing and the characters are unforgivably juvenile.

I can't believe people are comparing it to Reynolds or Hamiltons work! Not even close.

Awful
Very disappointed with this book... In fact I threw it away four fifths of the way through after finally giving up. Angel Stations is one of my favorite SciFi books of all time, its original, well written and the characters engaging and well developed. By contrast Stealing Light is poorly written derivative trash. The plot is a rehash of ideas that have been written many times before (David Brin anyone?) and the characters are very superficial, unbelievable and I found myself feeling no empathy whatsoever.
Go buy the new Ian M Banks book instead...

No Space Opera!
This is not a 'Space Opera' - I found it quite lightweight. It should not be compaired to Peter Hamilton.