Reviews

Delta-v by Daniel Suarez

annie_bo_bannie's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

dreamingofspaceships's review against another edition

4.0

Has a bit of a slow start, until the actual space travel part of it starts. In the beginning it also felt like the book was going to make the Elon Musk-esque billionaire a heroic figure, but in the second half that plotline evolves and becomes a fascinating, much better story. I did feel like we could've done with more focus on a few more characters and less focus on the protagonist who was... not that interesting. But the other two viewpoint characters definitely shine through in their parts - would have been better to spend more time with the sadly short-changed Erica Lisowski from NASA. Same goes for the other astronauts and Lukas the space lawyer.

I mainly came for the hard sci-fi aspect and was not disappointed. The exposition work is brilliant and very readable. The book does a great job in explaining asteroid mining and why it will be an important step in becoming a spacefaring civilisation and also successfully uses that in making the reader care about the main characters and their mission.

Rounding up 3.5 stars to 4.

harmonictempest's review against another edition

4.0

Compelling hard sci-fi that projects a soberly realistic picture of how near-space exploration and exploitation is most likely to follow a relatively lawless and amoral pioneering model led by corporations rather than governments. Read for the interesting details of why asteroid mining is necessary for actual commerce in space and how it might be bootstrapped. As with most hard sci fi, read for the science and the plot, not the characters.

Also as with most hard sci-fi, I want to pair this with an expert review dissecting the science for a plausibility analysis. Everything in space has so little margin for error that one small detail or a single chemical is the difference between trivial and hard and between hard and impossible.

msperseus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

cazool's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

liium's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

jagerrobinson's review against another edition

4.5

Absolutely fascinating world built!

x0pherl's review against another edition

3.0

A decent enough entry in the "humans become deep space explorers genre.
I've been hoping to find another Suarez book with that weird distopian feel of Daemon and Freedom. Might have just decided to give up on that.

tcadigan's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

4.0

jalleyn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5