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    Creation Machine: A Novel of the Spin
    Creation Machine: A Novel of the Spin
    Creation Machine: A Novel of the Spin
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    Creation Machine: A Novel of the Spin

    By Andrew Bannister

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    Creation Machine is a fast-paced, whip-smart science fiction debut from Andrew Bannister introducing the stunning galaxy called the Spin.

    In the vast, artificial galaxy called the Spin, a rebellion has been crushed.

    Viklun Hass is eliminating all remnants of the opposition. Starting with his daughter.

    But Fleare Hass has had time to plan her next move from exile to the very frontiers of a new war.

    For hundreds of millions of years, the planets and stars of the Spin have been the only testament to the god-like engineers that created them. Now, beneath the surface of a ruined planet, one of their machines has been found.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 5, 2019
    ISBN9781250179128
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    Andrew Bannister

    Andrew Bannister grew up in Cornwall. After initial feints towards music and engineering, he eventually studied Geology at Imperial College, London, and went to work in the North Sea oilfields before becoming an Environmental Consultant. Andrew is an active volunteer, focusing on children with special educational needs. He is currently the Vice Chair of Special Olympics Leicestershire and Rutland. He has always written and been a voracious reader. He has now discovered that writing science fiction, like his Spin Trilogy (Creation Machine, Iron Gods, Stone Clock) is at least as enjoyable as reading it, but takes longer.

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    • 3/5
      Although this is the author's first story, it isn't the first story he's had published, writing in all sorts of magazines but concentrating on science fiction topics and this is quite clear from this story, set in the Spin region of the Galaxy, set up hundreds of thousands of years ago and now largely ignored by the Galaxy as a whole. One of the more unpleasant civilisations to have grown up in the Spin is the self-proclaimed The Fortunate who have come into possession of an artefact used all those millennia ago to create the Spin and its artificial worlds and who's Final Prophet has deemed that the device should be used to conquer the rest of the Spin but the surrounding civilisations have other ideas.Fleare Haas, daughter of the owner of the Haas Corporations, has fallen out with daddy to the extent of enlisting in the opposition, before being exiled to The Monastery where she awaits being ransomed back but she's rescued by one of her colleagues from the rebellion and they search out fellow survivors as they are fed the details of the artefact found by The Fortunate.At first, the jumping around characters' timelines was a bit disconcerting but either I got used to this, or Bannister eased up on this as we got into the story. The story isn't explicitly marketed as the first in a series but I wasn't terribly surprised to find that there are more books in the timeline though it does more-or-less wrap itself up quite well
    • 2/5
      This one seems to be getting quite a push from Bantam (they were giving away free ARCs at Eastercon). First impression… well, it’s very Banksian. And that can’t be bad. The action takes place in the Spin, an “artificial galaxy”, although no real sense of the size or scale of this galaxy is apparent in the book. The heroine, Fleare Haas, who struck me as very much in a smiliar vein to Banks’s Lady Sharrow, is the daughter of the plutocrat who pretty much runs the Hegemony, the Spin’s most powerful government. She tried fighting against him in a breakaway army, but that ended badly. As the book opens, she’s a prisoner of an enigmatic ruin on one of the Spin’s worlds. She’s then rescued by an ex-colleague who is a cloud of nanobots (one of the novel’s more inventive elements), because she’s needed to prevent the Hegemony from doing something stupid with a powerful artefact that may be left over from the machine that built the Spin. That artefact is currently in the hands of a brutal regime which occupies a handful of worlds in the centre of the artificial galaxy. It’s all very twenty-first century space opera, very readable, quite inventive, with a slight twist of Banks and a mordant, albeit far more sweary, wit… But it’s also a space opera universe in which capitalism runs everything, and slavery, torture and brutality seem the default setting… In fact, there are no redeeming features to the societies depicted in the Spin. And I have to wonder, why would someone write a book like this? It feels like an attempt to writer a grimdark space opera – but since I think grimdark is a horrible thing, I can think of no good reason why anyone would want to do the same in space opera. I suspect this book will do quite well, but I’ll not be bothering with the sequels.

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