The Seeds of Time

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Summary: Cute time travel hook fleshed out by colorful characters
Review: "The Seeds of Time" explores the idea of time travel as a form of space travel for a civilization whose technology cannot construct faster than light ships. While some of the author's time travel theories (patrticularly about time paradox) seem like thinly veiled plot devices, they provide an unusual backdrop around which the charcters can shine.
Clio FInn seems like just the sort of lady you'd like to hang out with: strong, smart, and mischievous

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Summary: Great action.
Review: A good action/adventure SF. It started on the first page and never let up. I kept thinking that this would make a great movie. There are great plot twists and the plot didn't get predictable till near the end. Be ready to finish this in one sitting, it's hard to put down once it gets going.

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Summary: Intelligent use of time travel
Review: At last, a time-travel story that incorporates the time travel aspect into the storyline! All too often, time travel is gratuitous to the story or explained to death and used to substitute for action; the "amazement factor" is frequently given more weight than plausibility or plot. I like time travel stories enough to put up with a lot of silliness, but I'm thrilled when it's handled intelligently and -- odd as it may sound -- realistically. In this book, time travel is simply a new and difficult technology that both helps and hinders the people who use it. To my great relief and appreciation, the story in SEEDS OF TIME and the characters are what matter. The main character is young and angry; the plot is about how she and her companions set about to save modern civilization from itself, first from within established processes, then as outlaws. The action seldom stalls. Recommended to people who enjoy vivid description and intelligent use of time travel as a plot element

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Summary: kinda corny, but loved it anyway
Review: Fun action, personable characters, and interesting ideas. Definitely a keeper even if the story was a bit corny. Easy to overlook the flaws. I'll read more by Kenyon.

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Summary: A disappointment
Review: I found this book rambling and rather incoherent, and although there were a few clever plot ideas it wasn't all that engaging. Besides, the main character was for most of the book very unlikable, and the background was totally negative and depressing (Earth's environment ruined, government evil and corrupt, etc).

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Summary: One of my favorites! Great SF writer!
Review: I got this book because I was looking for scifi and it was recommended if I liked Octavia Butler, I'd probably like this one. Well, I did! It is one of those books (much like Butler's) that keep you reading because you've got to know what's going to happen next. And when you try to predict the next move, she throws you a curve. I just found out that Kay Kenyon has a new one out-I'm going buy it right now. You should too!

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Summary: Kenyon's book is a good, basic story
Review: I just finished reading what I could manage of this book. That was all but the last 120 pages. A new reader of science fiction, an adult reader, might find this book enjoyable to read. Indeed, I liked most of it myself, except for the beginning of the second part of the book, which rambled so that I gave up. Clio Finn is a dive pilot, one of only a few who can pilot a dive ship through time without sleeping through the experience. She is the best dive pilot, having performed a string of dives much longer than average without burning out. She uses drugs to do this. Clio is on the run from DSDE agents who short-list her for extermination because she killed an agent when she was a child. While running, she had taken this dive job when her proficiency tested positive. Now she dives to find plants to transplant in an ecologically devastated earth. There is action, mutiny, killing, science, etc in this book. If I hadn't already read so many science fiction and fantasy novels, this might have seemed fresher to me.

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Summary: A truly exciting novel!
Review: I read the first page of this book at Chapters and couldn't put it down, I had to purchase it. The reader is able to feel for the characters, especially Clio, and is put on this wild and realistic journey through space, time and self.

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Summary: Beats with the pulse of the Millennium
Review: If you want something you can't put down, try SEEDS OF TIME. In Kay Kenyon's world (and in our own?) we're running out of time, out of green earth, out of chances. The novel's heroine, Clio Finn, appeals to me because of an energy fueled by anger, but also because she insists on doing what she thinks is right. I enjoyed the time travel, which allows Finn a chance to see herself as future hero, and allows the reader to see her that way too, juxtaposed with the very human character we come to know throughout the novel. In a way, Kenyon allows us to imagine OURSELVES as heroes as we travel with Finn. I'm struck by the way Kenyon keeps up the momentum, and her language is wonderfully vivid and real.

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Summary: Intense, complex, moving; reminiscent of C.J.Cheryh
Review: If you're a fan of Ms. Cherryh (and I certainly am), you'll be delighted with this book. It has a dark intensity, quite a few surprises, and strong characters of both genders-- it kept me reading well after my bedmate had gone to sleep. The writing is consistently excellent, much better than most first books you encounter, and there are a number of interesting ideas that keep the book from ever drifting into formula. Not only did I love it, I liked Ms. Kenyon's second book, Leap Point, even better. What can I say, she's made it onto my automatic buy list.