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Morden has crafted an entertaining page-turner. The characters are interesting and the plot engaging. Besides the Russian mafia, the Yakuza and other species of saints and crooks, there is the cerebral pursuit of a version of the holy grail of physics.

This is archetypical cyberpunk, perhaps a little long with a less surprising conclusion, but most readers will enjoy the romp. I'll be reading the sequels.


Tags : Equations of Life [Simon Morden] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Samuil Petrovitch is a survivor. He survived the nuclear fallout in St. Petersburg and hid in the London Metrozone - the last city in England. He's lived this long because he's a man of rules and logic. For example: GETTING INVOLVED = A BAD IDEA. But when he stumbles into a kidnapping in progress,Simon Morden,Equations of Life,Orbit,184149948X

Equations of Life Simon Morden 9781841499482 Books Reviews

Too bad it was a metrozone trilogy and not an epic saga with 400 books.
I am a s if I nut from Asimov & Bradbury days. This was one of the better of the newer sci-fi books since the greats have gone.
This whole series is crazy-good. The characters make it so interesting. I hope there is more coming.
The novel starts out with your average punk physics genius saving a girl, spitting in face of gangsters. Then it starts to get exciting. MORDEN has talent even though sometimes his writing is so fast he falls down. It is worth the ride...
Well written, though the sprinkling of Russian and Japanese terminology in the dialogue was a bit disconcerting. Meaning could be guessed from context to some extent and in the long run it helped immerse the reader into the world in which the story was set
book. I liked the main character, who is quirky, brilliant, and changes identities and continents when his activities get him into trouble. Don't know if I will get the rest of the trilogy; I didn't find the story that compelling.
Perhaps the first lesson to be learned from this book is that being a Good Samaritan can lead to horrendous consequences. Petrovich, a young college student, is the Samaritan, even though he tells himself at the time that helping a young lady apparently being kidnapped is a bad idea. The lady happens to be the daughter of one of the Metrozone's (post-Armageddon London) main crime bosses, and the would-be kidnappers are henchmen of one of the other crime bosses, so this immediately leads to Petrovich becoming deeply involved in their rivalry and with a price on his head, complicated by his having a bad heart that is on its last legs.

Just for icing on the cake, Petrovich is just about the ultimate geek, busily working on a Grand Unified Field theory as a sideline to running away from or confronting various goons, and is quite competent in all matters computer related.

There is mystery, action (and more action), a fine display of just what intelligence can do when applied to the real world, believable threats, a well-developed background world that has a nice gritty feel to it, and a fair amount of sarcasm and humor. It's a fun read, one you can become easily engrossed in, and will want to hurry back to its pages to find out what happens next. Petrovich himself is an intriguing character, with a lot hiding behind your initial impression of him, and the supporting characters range from a gun-toting giantess of a nun to a police chief who does nothing but plant bugs on people.

Some of the feats of derring-do that Petrovich performs do stretch the bounds of believability, and there were a couple of scenes that I don't think were completely thought through as to their possibility in a real world, but what I found strikingly real was a fairly short passage detailing his (and his partner's) work with a mathematical theory (don't worry, the reader is not expected to know any real math), showing just how engrossed and focused people who work at this level become and how insidiously a mathematical problem will grab your mind and will not let go, having some experience with this type of thing myself.

Although this book is the first of a trilogy, the story presented here is complete in own right, without any dangling cliffhangers at the end, which is a nice change from far too many multi-volume works. I will definitely be reading the rest of this series.

---Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)
Morden has crafted an entertaining page-turner. The characters are interesting and the plot engaging. Besides the Russian mafia, the Yakuza and other species of saints and crooks, there is the cerebral pursuit of a version of the holy grail of physics.

This is archetypical cyberpunk, perhaps a little long with a less surprising conclusion, but most readers will enjoy the romp. I'll be reading the sequels.