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Stealing For The Sky Kindle Edition

by Adam Roberts (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
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A blistering science fiction thriller by Adam Roberts with the hardboiled edge of Richard Stark's Parker series.

People call him Starman though his name is Fosse. He steals spaceships to order.

In the near future, as humanity colonises the moon and earth’s orbital space, scores of shady groups want in on the action: the mob, emerging nations, terrorists, you name it. If you don’t have the resources to develop your own space programme, no problem. Starman will steal anything you need, from shuttle components to entire rockets.

On one of his jobs Starman picks up a strange sphere that seems to possess anti-momentum. He’s not sure what it is, although it's soon apparent that certain people will go to any lengths to relieve him of it.

When an Irkutski Independence group enlists Starman to swipe an antique Soviet rocket from a Russian space museum, the mistake they make is double-crossing him.

Starman is most definitely not the kind of man you sell out …

About the author:
Adam Roberts is often described as one of the UK's most important writers of science fiction. He has been nominated three times for the Arthur C. Clarke Award: in 2001 for his debut novel Salt, in 2007 for Gradisil and in 2010 for Yellow Blue Tibia. He has won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, as well as the 2012 BSFA Award for Best Novel. Roberts reviews science fiction for The Guardian and is a contributor to the SF ENCYCLOPEDIA. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His science fiction has been praised by many critics both inside and outside the genre, with some comparing him to genre authors such as Pel Torro, John E. Muller, and Karl Zeigfreid.
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    November 15, 2022
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BKLMZ51W
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ NeoText (November 15, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 15, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1574 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 138 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 187 ratings

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4.2 out of 5 stars
4.2 out of 5
187 global ratings

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Pablo Rodriguez
5.0 out of 5 stars Action-packed and lots of fun!
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2022
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Score another win for Roberts, as he writes a short adventure novel in the style of Donald Westlake. The dialogue and plotting are good, the action scenes are well-paced and believeable, and the engineering is atrocious (by design, I think). Rockets don't work that way, but who cares when it's this much fun? The unrelated framing story adds a deeper science fiction element as a bonus, even though the main story stands on its own. How can this be just 99 cents?!
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BigOrangeDave
4.0 out of 5 stars what’s next?
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2022
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Just the right length. Memorable character, desolate landscape brought to life (and does a pretty good job making things really cold in your mind) and a complicated caper made simple. It all fits together really well.

And there is just a hint that this might be a prelude to a much more interesting tale. I’ll be eagerly waiting.

VFL
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Ed Rybicki
3.0 out of 5 stars How much now??
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2023
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Yes. Well. Looked interesting - I’m a sucker for noir anything, especially SF - and it WAS interesting, and it sucked me in, and…it just ended. Just when it was getting interesting, when we might have followed the protagonist off planet, and found out who laid the…

OK: no spoiler alerts. But there’d better be another couple to follow this one, or I’m going to come back and reduce my rating to 1 star!
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Slashjc
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, tech thriller for scientifically-minded cynic
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2023
Roberts is a very good and quirky writer. I love some of his work (Jack Glass, Yellow Blue Tibia, The Thing Itself), but sometimes its even too deep and quirky for me. But I really enjoyed this short novel. It’s a tech thriller and I’m going to recommend it to an engineering student I know who likewise just wants to get off this god-forsaken planet.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Way to go Adam Roberts!
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2022
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Way to go, Adam Roberts! Aside from all the great reviews, I had no idea what I was getting into here. Turns out, a smart sci-fi, page turning, adventure story! Bravo!! Keep them coming, Adam!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gory action with high concepts
Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2023
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A short novel but we'll worth the read, intrigue, with action that makes John Wick look like kindergarten. As all good fiction, it teaches well as entertains.
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Rarely Pontificating
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2023
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Action packed and stimulating, without the usual letdown at the end. Genre suits AR, perhaps write a few more in this style. Read it in one go. Buy!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very good if a bit 'clunky'.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2023
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The cover suggests that this is by a newcomer or less known writer, however it quickly sets out its stall as interesting and well written. Not to mention the science. At least twice he whacks us with deep knowledge, which I love.

It gets four stars because 1. Starman (a silly and simplistic name) is too violent for me, to gratuitous; his lack of humanity, while fitting, prevents a bond developing with the reader. 2. He's sloppy about some of the technical details - flying a helicopter while handcuffed, no yaw control pedals......
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Gwilym Eades
5.0 out of 5 stars great
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2023
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Great book very satisfying
A hearty recommendation for this if you love his other books like I do. Excellent writing
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A V McEwan
4.0 out of 5 stars Lionel Fanthorpe tribute
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 18, 2023
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The clue to this latest from Adam Roberts lies in the closing line of the About the Author blurb in which Roberts is compared to three sci fi authors must will not recognise. The three are pseudonyms of Lionel Fanthorpe, a british author famous for rapidly produced eccentric pulp sci fi potboilers. The odd lacunae in Roberts book - the last minute explanation of the maguffin; the never explained motivation of the protagonist; even the emphasis on physical appearance - are all a tribute and pastiche of Fanthorpe. A fun literary game and a little in the vein of Spinrad’s Iron Dream
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