ALLEN STEELE worked as a freelance journalist before becoming a prolific science fiction writer. He has garnered multiple Hugo Awards for his novellas and novelettes, and his novel Orbital Decay won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1990. In 2013, he received the Robert A. Heinlein Award in recognition of his fiction promoting space exploration.
"He reminds us of how many of our dreams of and hopes for our
future have been shaped by the real Legion of Tomorrow--the writers
of science fiction like Robert A. Heinlein, Fred Pohl, E.E. Smith,
Isaac Asimov, John W. Campbell, and Allen Steele himself." --New
York Review of Science Fiction
"Arkwright is a book that those with knowledge of the genre's past
will appreciate, and those relatively new to it will realise why
the interest in SF has endured. It is brilliant." --SFF World
"Arkwright is an addictive and entertaining read that packs an
unbelievable journey that feels larger and grander in scope than
should fit in the pages that bind it, but it pulls it off and pulls
it off splendidly. It takes the reader through the history and
evolution of Science Fiction, rubbing elbows with Asimov, Heinlein
and Clarke, and then beyond present day, looking towards the future
and the stars for what lays in store for us next." --The
Speculative Herald (4 1/2 stars) "Arkwright is an alternate
history, yes, of what we should and could have done. But it's also
a renewed vision of what we still could do. It's the most
optimistically extrovert sci-fi novel to appear for many years, and
it lifts the heart like bugles in the morning." --Wall Street
Journal "Arkwright is a novel you can hand to anyone and say 'This
is why I like science fiction.'" --SF Signal (four out of five
stars) "Arkwright is a great read, and one that wears its love for
genre fiction proudly. Steele has taken the brightest and most
recognizable parts of science fiction--that sense of wonder, the
ability to tell grand stories on cosmic levels, and sense of can-do
exploration--and woven it into a novel that's profoundly aware of
where it comes from. It's certainly a science fiction novel that
follows in the path of authors like Heinlein and Clarke, and recent
books such as Aurora and Seveneves. At the end of the day, this is
a book that really celebrates genre fiction and the possibilities
that puts forth for our own future." -iO9 "In Allen Steele's
capable hands, this wildly unlikely story--stretching across
generations of Arkwrights--becomes totally plausible. It's a fun
wish-fulfillment romp that every Analog reader should enjoy."
--Analog "Steele's story benefits from roots in real science and
actual space-travel theories." --RT Book Reviews (three out of
Five? Stars)
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