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In a series you suffer from the same issues as the middle of a novel. You know the start already and it can't really end since there will be another novel after it. The action continues the characters deal with events that happened at the end of the 1st novel and mope for quite a few pages. Events start to pace and the chase is on again and then key event to the series to get things headed again finally happens. Then you are off to the third and final novel. I would recommend the series for those who are a bit open on their science fiction to add in elements traditionally found in fantasy.


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Chill Jacob Ladder Elizabeth Bear 9780553591088 Books Reviews

Today, I finished the science fiction novel "Chill" by Hugo and Sturgeon award-winning author Elizabeth Bear. Unfortunately, when I checked it out of my local public library, I didn’t notice that it was the second installment in the three-part "Jacob’s Ladder" series.

The series tells the tale of a generation ship, a proposed means of crossing interstellar space by having a space vessel carry multiple generations of people across long distances at relatively slow speeds. It’s a trope that’s very familiar with science fiction fans.

Ms. Bear did something new, but it was hard for me to figure out exactly what, since I was coming into the story in the proverbial middle of the second reel.

Apparently the generation ship, "Jacob’s Ladder" starts out in the first novel “Dust” trapped in orbit around a doomed star, using its resources to replenish the ship’s damage. I don’t know how that works, and like I said, I’ve never read the first book.

At the beginning of “Chill,” the star has already gone nova and the ship is riding the concussion wave away from the destroyed star, with both ship and crew severely damaged but capable of self-healing. However, life on board this ship more resembles a feudal civilization with warring clans using high tech armor as well as swords, and assisted by AI manifestations, many fragments of the original “angel” that served the Captain in running the various “Heavens” (biospheres) nurtured aboard “Jacob’s Ladder.”

I had a tough time getting into the book for almost the entire first half of the story. I couldn’t figure out the characters and their relationships with one another, them apparently being long-lived on the order of centuries, in spite of this being a generation ship. Then too, issues of reincarnation or resurrection came up with people rising from seeming death, sometimes with their personalities intact, and sometimes not.

The novel is almost totally devoted to the pursuit of a powerful traitor and murderer by a clan called “Conn” who apparently have a rather lethal reputation themselves.

The book is both linguistically and thematically dense, so I was worried I was missing some subtly hidden, theologically-based message beneath the plain text, especially since I didn’t have the first novel to rely upon for background.

But what novel with angels and heavens would be complete without a demon, which is exactly what is confronted at the climax of the story. However, there were two major reveals (which I won’t give away) that changed what I thought would be the outcome.

I found the second half of the novel easier to read, but perhaps that’s just because I finally managed to wrap my brain about the tale being related. That said, although it’s a unique take on an old SciFi theme, it was a lot like watching hard science (although Bear's science wasn't rock hard) and magic attempt to co-exist in a cohesive universe. That’s not impossible, but it’s tough to successfully pull off.

Ms. Bear has earned some impressive accolades, but in this story, I found the characters difficult to access, and it was all but impossible for me to mentally map the generation ship. That last part may be by design, but I needed to be able to connect to the environment as well as the main players, both human and AI (the latter being rather gender fluid depending on the needs of the human(s) they served), and by the end, I wasn’t sure I knew them any better than when I started reading the book.

A friend of mine at work was convinced by my description and thumbing through the paperback to get a copy of the first novel, but I’ll probably hold off on that. My reading list is vast, and once I cut it down some, I may circle back to “Dust” to find out how this all started, and then wind up with “Grail” to see the resolution, however, I’m not in any hurry.

But there are other books to get to in the meantime.
Another superb novel from Elizabeth Bear, continuing the series with compassion and intelligence. Great storytelling from one of fantasy's masters.
Initially I became a bit bored thinking this was another volume of chasing around after a fugitive, but step by step I realised it was more than that. I enjoyed the slow revealing of earlier history through the memories of the characters, the weird environments and the surprising twists and turns of the story.
This book tops the excellent Dust in pure sensawunda, building deliciously on the world Bear began for us there. Some of the new coolness in this installment blew me away. If you read the first book you will get this Bear's new playthings are even better than Inkster and the librarian.

She talks about family on a scale that makes the micro into macro, dysfunction on an epic scale - like a greek saga set on a generation ship. And the *spoiler deleted* that she reveals at the end makes me eager to start Grail asap.

Highly recommend this entire series.
The second of trilogy that has kept me awake reading far too late at nights is entertaining and suspensful and just plain fun. Elizabeth Bear has limitless imagination and let's it run without pause throughout this trilogy.
Don’t read this if you need sleep. Twists and turns in the plot, wonderful world building, characters are strong and well articulated. Brain candy!
What an incredible author! If you want to expand your vocabulary this is the book to do it! I enjoy the story line and the different ideas of how various cultures might develop seperately, completely independent of Earth and communication from one another. The concept in and of itself is interesting but Bear developed it incredibly well.
In a series you suffer from the same issues as the middle of a novel. You know the start already and it can't really end since there will be another novel after it. The action continues the characters deal with events that happened at the end of the 1st novel and mope for quite a few pages. Events start to pace and the chase is on again and then key event to the series to get things headed again finally happens. Then you are off to the third and final novel. I would recommend the series for those who are a bit open on their science fiction to add in elements traditionally found in fantasy.