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by Matthew Farrell

ISBN: 0380799154
ISBN13: 978-0380799152
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Voyager (May 1, 2001)
Category: Science Fiction
Subategory: Science Fiction

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After Thunder was chaos. And the only world young Taria Spears knew fell violently to pieces. Thirty years later, the adult Taria - an anthropologist - has seen the planet renewed and the true nature of Thunder Rift revealed. or as an open door for an invading alien fleet.

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And that's the single largest strength of Matthew Farrell's recent novel Thunder Rift; Farrell gives us aliens that are both convincing and intriguing, and, more importantly, who are different from human beings in ways that resonate with the deepest parts of ourselves. The novel starts with omens. There is a primordial clash of the elements at a propitious moment. Specifically, at the precise moment that lead character Taria Spears is being conceived, a wormhole opens up near Jupiter; it is so bright it can be seen from Earth. A glance at his Web site indicates that Matthew Farrell has several other books in progress.

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Matthew Farrell Matthew Farrell lives in Cinncinati and has a continuing interest in aikido. I found Thunder Rift interesting enough to finish, but I can't say that I enjoyed this book

Matthew Farrell Matthew Farrell lives in Cinncinati and has a continuing interest in aikido. Thunder Rift is his first published novel. I found Thunder Rift interesting enough to finish, but I can't say that I enjoyed this book. I had three major problems with it - a whining neurotic brat of a protagonist, a central 'mystery' that is much too obvious, and an uneasy blend of science and mystical woowoo. Writing a fallible protagonist is one thing, but having a main character who is as convincingly disagreeable as Taria makes this a very difficult book for a reader to like.

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After Thunder was chaos. The energy output of the inexplicable alien artifact that humans called Thunder Rift shattered the fragile links that held Earth's highly technological society together. And the only world young Taria Spears knew fell violently to pieces.

Thirty years later, the adult Taria -- an anthropologist -- has seen the planet renewed and the true nature of Thunder Rift revealed. An artificially constructed "wormhole," it was created to provide human beings with a bridge to somewhere else in the galaxy...or as an open door for an invading alien fleet.

Joining the crew of the exploratory ship Lightbringer, Taria is venturing into the wormhole on a mission of knowledge, contact and, possibly, survival. What awaits her on the other side is a destiny too powerful to deny -- and a perplexing alien culture that thrives in a strange aural landscape, where what is seen is meaningless...and where devastating truths lie in silence.

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Sha

Matthew Farrell's idea-packed and beautifully written "Thunder Rift" is a survey-team story with a baroquely neurotic postmodernist heroine. His Taria Spears rejects intimacy, disobeys orders, antognizes nearly everyone she meets, but . . . well, wait for it.
The premise is simple: a wormhole, "the thunder," appears near Jupiter, and the survey team is sent through it to discover another gas-giant planet that has a life-supporting satellite upon which live the curious "Blues." These critters are hopelessly myopic and their primary sense is hearing (the author does a marvellous job of depicting what a hearing-based society, language, art, and architecture might be like), but it seems unlikely they could be the ones responsible for constructing the wormhole. Taria thinks otherwise.
The rulebound survey team, composed primarily of military personnel (although Taria and a few others are civilians) meets virtually with blue representatives and eventually (and reluctantly) the powers that be on the survey team send Taria to the surface (for a postmodernist tale it's surprising how 1950s Farrell makes the hidebound survey-team officers--they could have been created by one of John W. Campbell's "Analog" mag. writers of the 1950s). Taria, of course, finds things are not what they seem, at which point the tale gets a kick start and moves on to its swift conclusion.
Notes and asides: Farrell anticipates certain objections readers might have and tosses in an appendix to deal with them, and you get the sense that an editor insisted upon this. With more time (and skill--this is apparently Farrell's first novel) the details listed there could have been worked into the main story. And whatever did happen to Ensign Coen? Did I miss something?

Danrad

THUNDER RIFT begins with the sudden appearance of a wormhole in the solar system, which wreaks havoc on Earth. Taria Spears is born into the resulting social and economic chaos. Then, at an early age, she is traumatized by the death of her mother. She grows up brilliant but emotionally scarred, and wins a spot on an expedition to explore the Rift.

Plunging through the wormhole in search of it's source, the expedition finds an earthlike planet inhabited by a race of aliens. These aliens perceive their world through a highly-developed sense of hearing, but they aren't technologically advanced. The expedition is ready to write these beings off, but Taria is intrigued.

So far, so good. From this point, however, THUNDER RIFT deteriorates. In terms of their attitudes and responses, the aliens aren't really all that alien and, of course, the humans in this tale are stereotypically paranoid and militaristic. By the time the dust settles, we have aliens that can bring down aircraft (even spacecraft) with a mysterious sonic power and that metamorphose into marine creatures that can "sing" open a wormhole in interstellar space. In short, what starts as in interesting little tale degenerates into a preposterous melodrama.

If you can suspend your disbelief enough to swallow all this, THUNDER RIFT is a mildly entertaining read. It's no more than that, though.

Kriau

Not a bad book, not a great book. Just decent.
The basic idea is a ship full of soldiers and scientists exploring a nearby region of space. The soldiers are predictably aggressive and paranoid, and the scientists are incredibly uninterested in the first contact with an alien culture. (Once they determine that an intelligent species isn't the one they were looking for, they all totally lose interest. Hello?)
Unlike many reviewers, I didn't find the "blues" especially different from humans. The author tried very hard to make them different, but they're no more alien than the folks in an ethnically different part of town.
The book tries to surprise you by setting things up one way and then having them turn out to be something very different. The set up is so clumsy that the end is revealed at the beginning. (Assertions made about a certain phenomenon come to mind.)
The plot progressed well, and the main character was well developed. An interesting read, but not a very deep one.