
Polostan
Bomb Light, Book 1
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January LaVoy
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Neal Stephenson
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.
Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.
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New hero!
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Entertaining from Start to Finish
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Even so, I kept drifting off because the story is so slow
Please use an editor!
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Not what I was thinking…
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Different!
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Political Intrigue, Science and Polo in the Cold War
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(You can read a novelization of the same period and an American woman and her offspring, like Aurora an American communist (but Aurora is learning the hard way) in Sana Krasnikov’s _Patriots_, also set in both Magnetogorsk and back in the USA, so coincidentally similar to the events and settings of Polostan!)
Aurora strikes me as an improved, deeper treatment of the heroine America Shaftoe from Cryptonomicon.)
I love this whole novel.
I believe Dick is Richard Feynman, which means he is 15 years old when Aurora meets him.
Fantastic capture of Physics and realistic, accurate capture of the scientific process and zeitgeist in the 1930s, leading up to the invention of the atomic bomb. I suspect that’s where this series is going. I’m all in!
One tragic flaw in this audiobook: unforgivable mispronunciations of the Russian names, throughout. Like nails on chalkboard.
10/10 on rich character, cracking plot and action, and profound scientific and political history!
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A period fiction adventure story
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The ending
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With a cast of characters I loved with a great story
Can’t wait for the next book in the Series
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