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Title: Fantastic First Novel
Review: C J Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels were clearly a big influence on Ms Moriarty. Add a touch of Heinlein, a touch of Vinge, a dollop of MacLeod and a goodly helping of Richard Morgan style noir, and you've got the flavor of this first outing in a future history where the economy is based on quantum entanglement and the rare material that makes it possible.Catherine Li is caught in the middle. More than a few middles as it turns out. There might be no one she can trust. And all she has to do is defang a crisis that threatens a civilization-wide war (or worse) if she fails and the mere genocide of her homeworld (and an incidental xenocide) if she "succeeds." Luckily she hates her homeworld. Then there's this AI who's stalking her (and that's an ally). And the murder of her twin, only nobody's supposed to know it's her twin, but nearly everyone seems to. And then it gets complicated.Great fun, and there's a sequel coming out late 2005 called "Spin Control"
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