Rating: 
Summary: Interesting book, but the ending was....
Review: The angry reader's review was an interesting summation of the somewhat disappointing ending the Steele suddenly 'slapped' in there, as the angry reader put it. I don't know, I did like the book and the long explanation of Alec's situation, but the ending was definitely an anti-climax. That Alec would stay on 'The Andy Garcia' for 70 years while tending to the dewars was disappointing for sure. Alec's MINN, Chip, was quite a funny presence, and the Superiors in the novel were engaging as well. I think that Alec's transformation from spoiled rich 'kid' to 'hero' (as the back of the paperback said), was impressive in its own right. However, I failed to see how Alec was a 'hero' in the end, and once again, Steele should have thought harder about it. Oh well....
Rating: 
Summary: Stupid and puerile
Review: This book starts out as an average throw-away sci-fi novel. However it degenerates into a childish rebuke of the protagonist's character by his friends.Alec, his girlfriend and his best friend go to a concert. Alec and his girlfriend get drunk and his friend drops acid. Alec asks his friend to drive home. His friend agrees. Neither friend nor girlfriend say "Alec, man, sorry but we are AFU and we're gonna call a cab or crash in that hotel over there." Well best friend drives and they all die. Their dear parents cryo them and they wake up in a space station. Alec spends most of the book as a lowly slave on the space station desperately trying to find his girlfriend. Well when he finally finds them, they are together and blame him for their deaths. They have engineered the entire slave thing to TEACH HIM A LESSON. They take no responsibility for their own actions in the accident that led to their deaths. That is the gist of the book. It could be called "Alec Learns Humility." You can't blame Alec for being arrogant. Its hard to be humble around such idiots. Apparently Mr. Steele believes that 'he made me do it' is a more than adequate excuse for anyone's actions. It isn't. It doesn't fly unless someone is holding a weapon on you, threatening your life or the life of others. I guess Alec's friends never had mothers. Because if they had, they would have been taught the primary message mothers give to their teenagers. "If your friends jump off a cliff, does that mean you should follow them?" It is very hard to swallow the fact that Alec accepts his friends' judgment of him and their treatment of him on the space station. There is always the possiblity that Mr. Steele meant this as some sort of satire. In which case, the book fails anyway.
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