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I had mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, I found it fairly engrossing, and I generally enjoyed the story. About two-thirds of the way through the book the tone then changes dramatically and not for the better. Frankly, it was abrupt enough that I had to go back and check to see if I had skipped something . Once I reached that point, I lost most of my investment in the book and started getting annoyed by some of the more questionable plot decisions.

The editing also fell apart in the last third of the Kindle edition. I found incorrect names ("Anton Gaudi"), mis-used words (("strenuous" instead of "tenuous"), and other similar issues. It almost seemed like the editor got tired and gave up.


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Noumenon Marina J Lostetter 9780062497840 Books Reviews

This is a very interesting take on a generation starship novel. The crew encounters a lot of moral and ethical questions about cloning, as well as many about what it means to be human and to be an individual. I really enjoyed it, and my only concern would be that this is probably not okay for kids under 15 or so, no matter their reading level, just due to some of the situations encountered. There's nothing sexual, but there are a lot of things that might bother younger readers, so parents, if this is for a younger kid, please read over it first to make sure it won't bother them. I would seriously recommend this to anyone who likes the science fiction storylines where they delve into the human experience at the same time as they question the unknown!
This book has some excellent and engrossing elements. The book has distinctive timeline jumps that carry new characters and unique focuses. For example, the discovery, the planning, the journey stage 1 etc. The Dyson Sphere plot element is similar to Pandora's Star by Hamilton but I enjoyed and preferred the way Noumenon handles the journey and the mystery - it gave me the same feeling as the initial discovery in Star Tide Rising or the alien ship in in the original Alien (before they ruined it with awful extrapolation in Prometheus).

Most of these timeline chapters are enjoyable and thought provoking. However, the Pit/Warden is a tangent shift to far for my tastes. It's like the old Sesame St game "one of these things is not like the other ...". It adds little to the main story arch and is painfully dumb - I cannot believe that the highly educated characters would make the awful decisions thrust upon us.

My advice, buy the book and skip the Pit/Warden part, as it will leave a bitter taste in an otherwise enjoyable tale.
Without any interesting direct story or cogent backstory this novel assumes the reader should care about generations (apparently? it's loose on its own chronology) of one dimensional characters strung together through poorly investigated societal(?), scenic(?), thematic(?), changes. So many questions... What's the point when a story line is ditched the minute you get interested in anyone? What's the point of buying into the next deep time dystopia if there's no coherent thread to set it up? Is it important the characters are clones and not say... frozen and reanimated? How have any of them earned my trust as a point of view? Or have they not? Who knows? But maybe if it's vague enough we can get a trilogy out of it.
How would one travel the galaxy?
Noumenon is a gem of a space opera. It asks one of the confounding questions of deep space travel How would a people travel the galaxy? Black holes, Cryogenics, Artificial Intelligence, Bio-Artificial Intelligence, Virtual reality, Cloning, or other exotic means. The problem is time versus distance versus the human condition. Well, not to belabor a challenge, Ms Lostetter adopted the Cloning method in conjunction with an interesting sub-dimensional (SD) quantum type of travel to defeat the difficult Einstein distance vs time challenge. I’ll allow the author to better define her parameters but in the end she does a better than average job with the deep space travel conundrum. The story revolves around genetic cloning to insure proper crewing of deep generational space ships. Although clones are exact duplicates of the original, small differences do creep in and grow to large differences over time. This is the heart of the story as Noumenon spans eons of space travel for the ships of Convoy 7. Fascinating story with terrific insight in the multi-faceted human condition.
Character development is the heart of Noumenon and is done in vignette style with recurring basic clone genetic lines. These vignettes are all wrapped in an intriguing story of very long deep space travel to a strange star, LQ Pyxidis, thousands of light years from earth. The entire roundtrip from earth will take thousands of earth years and about half that in SD faster than light quantum travel.
No gratuitous sex, violence or language. Just interesting writing.
This is the first book in I guess a possible trilogy. Book #2 comes out in August 2018 and is entitled Noumenon Infinity. Book #3?? A fun read about very deep space travel and how it could possibly be done. Yes I know, there are lots of proposals this is just one person’s supposition. Ms Lostetter does a fine job and will keep the reader engaged. Overall a strong recommend if you like Space, the Final Frontier!!
I had mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, I found it fairly engrossing, and I generally enjoyed the story. About two-thirds of the way through the book the tone then changes dramatically and not for the better. Frankly, it was abrupt enough that I had to go back and check to see if I had skipped something . Once I reached that point, I lost most of my investment in the book and started getting annoyed by some of the more questionable plot decisions.

The editing also fell apart in the last third of the edition. I found incorrect names ("Anton Gaudi"), mis-used words (("strenuous" instead of "tenuous"), and other similar issues. It almost seemed like the editor got tired and gave up.