Wildside

by Steven Gould

Book Overview

Forget the lottery. Teenager Charlie Newell has just discovered something that will make him and his friends billionaires. What if a world existed in which no humans ever evolved? No cities. No... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312854730
• ISBN13: 9780312854737
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Adventure & Coming of Age

Yet another book by Gould that delivers! He's one of my favorite authors. It's exhilerating to join the main character as he discovers a link to another world, and really comes into his own as an independent young adult and entrepreneur. All four main characters bring a very realistic human element to the story, and at times I found myself even more interested in their interactions than the "business" at hand. But perhaps that's just me... "Wildside" is a great adventure story, sure to make you wish YOU had your own link to an alternate universe! Since you don't (am I wrong?), the book is the next best thing.

Nice Read

It feels good to just sit down and read a nice simple story without having to wrap your brain around complex ideas or situations. Wildside is a nice simple story, but it is not childish or mundane. Gould builds the story around the characters, and does a good job of weaving a believable story about a doorway to another reality. Gould is a much better writer than I am, so enough with the review, read Wildside and enjoy it for yourself.

Fabulous and Fresh

I loved this book. I read it several years ago, and it's made me a permanent Steven Gould fan. Even several years later, I find myself playing "what if" based on the premise in this book.

wonderful novel

I loved this book, I mean normaly when people write about alternate universes and stuff like that, I have no idea what the heck they are talking about because they don't describe it at all. But Steven Gould has written a wonderful, fast paced, UNDERSTANDABLE novel and the descriptions blend perfectly with the plot. This book has it all: sci-fi, action, romance, and thrills. It is beautifuly wriiten and well described, and maybe not entirely bealievable but what the heck, right? The charac ters in this story were very well detailed, but not so much as that it slows down the plot with useless descriptions. All in all this was a great book and you should read it. Oh, by the way if you liked Jumper, (another book by Steven Gould) Steven Gould is writing a sequal to it called Reflex and it will be released Nov. 1, 2004.

Very Good! Buy This Book!

This is an *excellent* book! It's a coming-of-age novel, combining very good character development, a well-developed science fiction device, Man-vs-Nature adventure, ecological ethics, and a rousing dose of good-American-boy vs. evil-Government-agents. As in Steven Gould's first novel, Jumper, issues of alcoholism are examined in a sensitive manner. If you are an aviation buff, you will want to read this book. If you are a Heinlein fan, you will want to read this book. If you live in Texas, you will want to read this book. If you were ever an American teenager, you will want to read this book. Get the picture? :-)