SF novel. Winner of the 1994 Nebula Award for best novel.''is connected to the world depicted in Queen of Angels, is a broader and more traditional tale. Its depiction of Mars may lack some of the resolute arguments that accompany every speculative suggestion in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars sequence, but Bear's novel gains a commensurate freedom of sweep in its story -- which intermixes politics and an array of scientific discoveries -- of the emancipation of Mars from the hegemony of a paranoia-driven Earth. The title, it may be fair to add, is meant literally'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF... View More...
SF novel, part of the Quantum Logic series and direct sequel to QUEEN OF ANGELS (1990). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON PRINTED BOOKPLATE (''Millenium Philcon/September 2001'') AFFIXEED TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
''this first segment of the Quantum Logic series is concluded by SLANT(1997), a direct sequel to QUEEN OF ANGELS, depicting here - with a nod again to his earlier novel Blood Music a world citizenry under constant invasive/therapeutic manipulation, no individual an island, but many driven insane by commensal living at the molecular level'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition). View More...