Helpful Score: 2
I am so glad I checked this out of the library. Its pretty bad, as in I didn't finish it. We get more of the future of the solar system in this book and the stais bubbles Jubal invented get a lot of use, but the character voice... UGH. After a point I stopped reading and began skimming.
The gist of it is the daughter of the last protagonist is the viewpoint character for this book, named Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Podkayne Strickland-Garcia-Redmond and called Podkayne. Due to family connections, she gets a naval assignment on Europa as an entertainer. While there, aliens that had been discovered become active, nearly killing her and requiring that she enter stasis for 10 years. She comes out, finds she's famous and rich (courtesy of a verbal 'doodle' she made establishing a new style of music). From there, she deals with fame fortune, the 'invasion' of Earth by the aliens resulting in it becoming nearly uninhabitable, etc., etc. And, oh yeah, she meets and falls in love with Jubal Broussard the inventer of the squeezer and the stasis bubbles. All this, plus retcons on the origins of the bubbles and function of the stasis device.
Yeah, I spoiled it. Big deal. I didn't like it. Maybe you'll know enough to make your own decision.
The gist of it is the daughter of the last protagonist is the viewpoint character for this book, named Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Podkayne Strickland-Garcia-Redmond and called Podkayne. Due to family connections, she gets a naval assignment on Europa as an entertainer. While there, aliens that had been discovered become active, nearly killing her and requiring that she enter stasis for 10 years. She comes out, finds she's famous and rich (courtesy of a verbal 'doodle' she made establishing a new style of music). From there, she deals with fame fortune, the 'invasion' of Earth by the aliens resulting in it becoming nearly uninhabitable, etc., etc. And, oh yeah, she meets and falls in love with Jubal Broussard the inventer of the squeezer and the stasis bubbles. All this, plus retcons on the origins of the bubbles and function of the stasis device.
Yeah, I spoiled it. Big deal. I didn't like it. Maybe you'll know enough to make your own decision.
