The Eleventh Gate, Nancy Kress
The Eleventh Gate, Nancy Kress
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The Eleventh Gate

Author: Nancy Kress

Narrator: Braden Wright

Unabridged: 13 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

What lies beyond the eleventh gate …Despite economic and territorial tensions, no one wants the city-states of the Eight Worlds to repeat the Terran collapse by going to war. But when war accidentally happens, everyone seeks ways to exploit it for gain. The Landry and Peregoy ruling dynasties see opportunities to grab territory, increase profits, and settle old scores. Exploited underclasses use war to fuel rebellion. Ambitious heirs can finally topple their elders’ regimes—or try to.But the unexpected key to either victory or peace lies with two persons uninterested in conquest, profits, or power. Philip Anderson seeks only the transcendent meaning of the physics underlying the universe. Tara Landry, spoiled and defiant youngest granddaughter of dynasty head Rachel Landry, accidentally discovers an eleventh star-jump gate, with a fabulous find on the planet behind it. Her discovery, and Philip’s use of it, alter everything for the Eight Worlds.

About Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress is the author of more than thirty books, including more than a dozen novels of science fiction and fantasy. Her novels have won two Hugo and six Nebula awards as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel. She lives in Seattle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Oleksandr

This is a space opera with political commentary. The author, Nancy Kress, was nominated for both Hugo and Nebula in 1994 for her Beggars in Spain novel, but I’m yet to read it. This is my first experience with author’s prose and it was an interesting and unusual experience. The latter maybe due to t......more

Goodreads review by Denise

Maybe 4.5 I’ve read a few books over the last years that play with different government systems: Infomocracy and the Just City come to mind. This is different in that two systems are contrasted: libertarianism and a benign dictatorship in the guise of a corporation. Each are doing well enough the fir......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

I usually love Nancy Kress books, but not this one. The premise is that humans live in widely separated Earthlike worlds joined by ten stargates that provide instantaneous travel between the regions. Most worlds are controlled by one of the two main governments/empires, one corporate/totalitarian/we......more

Goodreads review by Frank

Workable Societies? It’s an entertaining space opera and I don’t regret reading it. I found the 2 main government systems not especially believable. A corporation as a government that didn’t destroy the planet through greed and didn’t treat employees as chattel because there was no one to stop them?......more

Quotes

“The Nebula- and Hugo-winner author presents a new space opera, set amid an interstellar war that only two people in the universe have any chance at stopping—one of whom is a young woman who’s just discovered a star gate leading to an intriguing new planet.” io9

“Warring families and philosophies drive this complex science fiction thrille…This swift, political story proves a rip-roaring diversion.” Publishers Weekly

Awards

  • io9 Pick
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