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Crossover: A Cassandra Kresnov Novel (editie 2006)

door Joel Shepherd (Auteur)

Reeksen: Cassandra Kresnov (1)

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Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. Cassandra is an experimental design -- more intelligent, more creative, and far more dangerous than any that have preceded her. But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening. She deserts the League and heads incognito into the space of her former enemy, the Federation, in search of a new life.

Her chosen world is Callay, and its enormous, decadent capital metropolis of Tanusha, where the concerns of the war are literally and figuratively so many light years away. But the war between the League and the Federation was ideological as much as political, with much of that ideological dispute regarding the very existence of artificial sentience and the rules that govern its creation. Cassandra discovers that even in Tanusha, the powerful entities of this bloody conflict have wound their tentacles. Many in the League and the Federation have cause to want her dead, and Cassandra's history, inevitably, catches up with her.

Cassandra finds herself at the mercy of a society whose values preclude her own right even to exist. But her presence in Tanusha reveals other fault lines, and when Federal agents attempt to assassinate the Callayan president, she finds herself thrust into the service of her former enemies, using her lethal skills to attempt to protect her former enemies from forces beyond their ability to control. As she struggles for her place and survival in a new world, Cassandra must forge new friendships with old enemies, while attempting to confront the most disturbing and deadly realities of her own existence.

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Lid:keikii
Titel:Crossover: A Cassandra Kresnov Novel
Auteurs:Joel Shepherd (Auteur)
Info:Pyr (2006), 467 pages
Verzamelingen:Jouw bibliotheek, Aan het lezen, Te lezen
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Trefwoorden:to-read, 5-yes-please, recs-2019, rec-friends

Informatie over het werk

Crossover door Joel Shepherd

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    Spin State door Chris Moriarty (thegryph)
    thegryph: Both have military-minded female protagonists in an SF world that has blurry lines between human and machine.
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    Saturn's Children door Charles Stross (hoddybook)
    hoddybook: Both have female ai's with a high libido in a dangerous universe.
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This was a reread, and better than I remembered it was.

I have the next 2 in the series on my kindle and had therefore read them more often. In all three, there's a quite a lot of movie-type violence, because what's the point of making an artificial supersoldier if they don't get to super-combat.

But in this first one, there's also quite a lot of philosophical musing about the differences and similarities between artificially created and naturally born humans, and differences in societal consensus and power, and all kinds of interesting stuff.

Also, the two main characters are both women, and their developing friendship is part of the story. ( )
  VictoriaGaile | Oct 16, 2021 |
Shepherd, Joel. Crossover. 2001. Cassandra Kresnov No. 1. Pyr, 2006.
Australian science fiction is sometimes a bit slow to penetrate the U.S. market. Although Joel Shepherd is a writer with more than 20 titles in his list, Crossover is the first one I have read, and I am going to make it a point to read more of his work. His heroine, Cassandra Kresnov, is an android created as a warrior. Star Trek fans will immediately think—Data in a Seven of Nine body with more libido than both of them put together. Post-traumatic stress has caused her to abandon her mission, desert, and try to live in secret in the enemy’s capital. She soon finds herself drawn back into a war that is more morally complex than she ever suspected. Crossover is well-plotted, with character-driven action and the R-rated sex and violence one expects from the genre. ( )
  Tom-e | May 31, 2021 |
Even a re-read was good

I first read this series when it was released in 2010. The SF aspects are fun and inventive, even 9 years later. The melange of cultures and the tangled web of government makes for a very deep world. I’m glad I took the time to reacquaint myself with this universe. ( )
  wildwily | May 28, 2020 |
Three things make "Crossover" a good solid science fiction novel: an action-packed cyberpunkish plot about far future inter-stellar political and military intrigue, a willingness to explore the issues around whether an man-made soldier can also be a person and, most of all, strong female characters, especially the artificial soldier herself, Cassandra Kresnov.

Joel Shepard builds his future world with care, paying attention to history. culture, and politics and setting up conflicts that are more complex than good-guys versus bad-guys. He has created a credible, engaging universe that could be the foundation for a good series of books.

The thriller plot has some excellently executed action scenes and just enough political intrigue to vary the pace.

Yet this isn't a "Olympus Has Fallen" you have 24 hours to save the universe kind of book. It's main focus is on Cassandra Kresnov who was built to be a super-soldier but has gone AWOL to see if she can do more with her life. A lot of the novel is spent exploring what it means to be sentient but not human, to look human but to be a formidable weapon, even when unarmed. Joel Shepherd gives this debate an excellent via a gruesome scene, early in the novel, where Cassandra is treated like a thing rather than a person and subjected to unbearable cruelty. By the end of this, I had no doubt Cassandra was a person.

Cassandra is not written a human who happens to have a different biology. She is, in many ways, alien and threatening. She knows why she was built, she just doesn't believe that she has to be bound by her maker's intent. We see her as "Captain Kresnov" commanding a crew of super-soldiers, slightly less advanced than her, who she cares for and who virtually worship her. We see her as the wannabe civilian, looking for a job, going to art galleries, picking up a man, trying to build a life. we watch her build trust, suffer grief, be overwhelmed by anger and crippled by fear. We are given every opportunity to like her. The humans she interacts with are more than foils or plot devices, the SWAT squad leader and the President of the planet are drawn with precise, confident strokes that make them easy to imagine.

I found the start of the book a little slow but I suspect this was more to do with how the book was narrated. Later in the book, Dina Pearlman does an excellent job with both the dialogue (wonderful accents and distinct voices for the main characters) and with action scenes, but her reading of the early scene-setting descriptions and some of Kesnov's internal reflections is a little flat and unsympathetic. I also thought the last chapter of the book could have been omitted or given more bite. But these are small complaints. This was a book I read with pleasure, wanting to know what happened next, caring about the characters and kept interested in the diversity of the world in which the action takes place.

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  MikeFinnFiction | May 16, 2020 |
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Title: Crossover
Series: Cassandra Kresnov #1
Author: Joel Shepherd
Rating: 1/2 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 467/Abandoned
Format: Digital edition

Synopsis:


DNF @45%

My Thoughts:

Due to some of the moral subject matter, I abandoned this book and will not be reading any more in the series.

☆☆☆☆½ ( )
  BookstoogeLT | Dec 1, 2017 |
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» Andere auteurs toevoegen (4 mogelijk)

AuteursnaamRolType auteurWerk?Status
Joel Shepherdprimaire auteuralle editiesberekend
Cooke, JacquelineOmslagontwerperSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Martiniere, StephanArtiest omslagafbeeldingSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Pearlman, DinaVertellerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd

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Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:

Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. Cassandra is an experimental design -- more intelligent, more creative, and far more dangerous than any that have preceded her. But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening. She deserts the League and heads incognito into the space of her former enemy, the Federation, in search of a new life.

Her chosen world is Callay, and its enormous, decadent capital metropolis of Tanusha, where the concerns of the war are literally and figuratively so many light years away. But the war between the League and the Federation was ideological as much as political, with much of that ideological dispute regarding the very existence of artificial sentience and the rules that govern its creation. Cassandra discovers that even in Tanusha, the powerful entities of this bloody conflict have wound their tentacles. Many in the League and the Federation have cause to want her dead, and Cassandra's history, inevitably, catches up with her.

Cassandra finds herself at the mercy of a society whose values preclude her own right even to exist. But her presence in Tanusha reveals other fault lines, and when Federal agents attempt to assassinate the Callayan president, she finds herself thrust into the service of her former enemies, using her lethal skills to attempt to protect her former enemies from forces beyond their ability to control. As she struggles for her place and survival in a new world, Cassandra must forge new friendships with old enemies, while attempting to confront the most disturbing and deadly realities of her own existence.

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