The Omega Expedition

by Brian M. Stableford

Book Overview

The sixth volume of Brian Stableford's future history concludes the series and also refers back to its beginnings. Through five earlier volumes, Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality, The Fountains of Youth, The Cassandra Complex , and Dark Ararat , Stableford has mapped out for us in engaging stories the wonderful and sometimes disturbing world of the next thousand years, on Earth, throughout the solar system, and to worlds beyond, with emphasis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765301695
• ISBN13: 9780765301697
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fine Finish To Stableford's Future History

Fans of vast, epic future histories in science fiction will undoubtedly appreciate Brian Stableford's concluding volume in his look at near-immortality for humanity, "The Omega Expedition". This is a good luck at human aging and how it is defeated successfully by a post-human culture in the solar system more than a thousand years in the future. However, stylistically as a writer, Stableford falls short of such distinguished fellow Britons as Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldis, and China Mieville. Even Bruce Sterling had a more fascinating, more intriguing look at humanity's struggle against the ravages of aging in his splendid novel "Holy Fire". Stableford's latest describes the travails and successes awaiting Madoc Tamlin, who awakes a thousand years after being frozen, unwitting finding himself on the front-line of a Solar System war between different factions of artificial machine intelligences. Still, this is a captivating novel of ideas worth reading by science fiction fans.