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Coyote | 
 enlarge | Author: Allen Steele
Publisher: Ace Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1337027
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0441009743
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780441009749
ASIN: 0441009743
Publication Date: November 2002
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 Sci-fi for children October 8, 2007
Dust
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The first question that Amazon asked when typing this review was whether I am over 13.
I find it an extremely apt question.
I can give this book two scores, based on the age of readers. Either a 4 for a 'rousing', tolerably well-written (for a children's book) and slightly thought-provoking children's book. Or I can give it one stars for a book that has a mature sci-fi reader shaking his head at every single turn of page. Perhaps not shaking, perhaps banging his head against a shelf of well-written sci-fi books.
I'm sure children and teenagers will be engaged by this book and will enjoy it immensely.
That said, they'd prefer Heinlein.
I find it astonishing that this book was written only a couple of years ago.
This is not a book that was written, in spirit, in the 21st century. Heinlein was writing better books, in the exact wagons-to-the-stars vein half a century ago. The 'inspiration' is obvious.
Adults will be driven to frustration by one-dimensional characters, awful science, barely concealed political frustration, unoriginal plots, pandering to children and the absolute stupidity of plot events and character behaviour.
A couple of examples of stupidity includes a laughable plot to steal a spaceship, a spaceship arriving to colonize a planet with no idea what to expect (so if the planet was hostile, the colonists would presumably have been doomed to eating each other in orbit), that spaceship being full of 'scientists' (a very 50s expectation) because agricultural experts were not foreseen, a planet with edible organisms that did not evolve from shared DNA (unexplainable), Marxist superhumans arriving to take over a planet (they have super-fast propulsion systems and cyborgs but forgot to take their food with them) and perhaps the most insulting part of all, a plot development in which a treacherous colonist reveals the colony location to the super-communists by sending them its location by radio. I can see my car parked on my street via Google Earth and I expect those that use zero-point energy could probably read the contents of this computer from orbit and they do not need traitors to find a primitive settlement on a planet.
Help, my brain is imploding from this childish sci-fi!
This is not hard sci-fi in any way. The science is atrocious
This is not space opera, there is nothing epic about its descriptions of children canoeing around a sea on an alien world.
This is a story of the American West being conquered by wagons, except it occurs in space.
 What a great book May 20, 2007
SJ SMART (London)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really like Science Fiction of this sort; with a lot of believable events and characters, colonising space and this was a great read. The story is set a little way in to the future as America constructs its first deep space manned colonisation ship for a moon in a distant galaxy that all reports state can support human life. The moon is 46 light years away so the crew and colonists have to go in to hibernation sleep for the voyage and then of course their are the struggle to build a colony on a distant alien world with no support from Earth. There are some brilliant touching moments and a few twists and interesting ideas, the main one being that most of the crew and colonists decided to hijack the ship straight away and escape in to space since the America they are leaving behind has become a fascist like corrupt dictatorship which has forgotten its libertarian roots.
If you liked Kim Stanley Robinsons great Mars Trilogy then you will love this too. This is a great trilogy too and after readind this I went out and bought the other two in the trilogy. a great story.
Unputdownable. It's a word. October 10, 2006
Craig Skinner (Sheffield, UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really cannot understand why this book (and the trilogy as a whole for that matter) has been taking such a beating in the reviews. I thought it was outstanding.
The fact that this book is based on a number of short stories is obvious at some points, if only because a lot of facts are over stated unnecessarily, presumably to 'set the scene' and enable readers to read these short stories individually without needing to read earlier ones. I feel a little better editing could have rectified this, but it's such a small flaw in an otherwise incredible book that it's barely worth mentioning.
Maybe it's also a testament to Steele's writing ability that these short stories work on their own and as part of a generation spanning trilogy?
I feel that far too much SF these days is ridiculous and too unbelievable (I know, it is fiction after all) but this book and series gives you something that you can actually imagine happening. It doesn't bombard you with gobbledegook science, it just tells an exciting, imaginative and often emotional story.
The phrase 'I could not put this book down' is an overused one, but I literally couldn't, and had finished the 3 books in the series in about 10 days.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
 So much potential. . . wasted June 13, 2006
Keith G. Dixon
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I thought the first half of Coyote was close to brimming with brilliance. But, it just gets stupider and stupider after the colonists land on Coyote. Why didn't they explore at all? They MOTHBALLED the easily refuelable VTOC shuttles, instead of using them for exploration? Anyway. . . started really great, ended really poorly. Seems like the last half was written by a child.
Who took the S out of SF? April 16, 2006
J. Childs (Peterhead, Aberdeensire United Kingdom)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was amazed at how many different ways Steele managed to get his science wrong in this one. From having visibly impressive relativistic effects at 0.2c to rivers that at some points apparently must run uphill, this book's got them all!
If, like me, you are a fan of 'hard' SF, this book's a guaranteed cringe-maker. Don't worry if you miss one - there'll be another along in a minute...
Having said that, if you like your SF softer, this one could delight - but don't believe the science. Steele is definitely much better with his characters than his science and if your disbelief can suspent its disbelief, you're left with a well-written and interesting adventure yarn.
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