This was a slow moving story of an immature self centered teen (aka teen) slowly growing up in a nearish future. There weren't enough likeable characters and the sci fi ideas weren't quite big enough to make this engaging.

"She is NOT my mother!" Mother Go (2017) by James Patrick Kelly is an entertaining and moving space opera set during the 22nd century, when humanity is just getting ready to explore and spread beyond the solar system. There are space stations, lunar habitats, starships, anti-matter drives, cryo-sleep, a wormhole (made by a mysterious and absent race of aliens called the Builders), printed clothes and foods (“I like my food printed, the way God meant it to be”), neural “mind feeds” (“She’d almost...

A coming-of-age story, set in space with a dash of squirrel genes.

I would describe this as a sci-fi coming-of-age story, but better because...space travel and science! Jim Kelly is a masterful writer with impressive credentials and this, his first full-length novel in two decades, does not disappoint. I won't give anything away but I will admit to crying at the end. I hope he plans to give us a sequel or two because I really want know what happens to the Mariska and the whole crew. I think this is a story that would appeal to both the hard-scifi camp and the c...

3.5/5.0

Here is a heartfelt coming-of-age story about a teenage girl navigating relationships; complicated would-be boyfriends, her payroll father, and her distant "mother" (who she happens to be a clone of). It's a wonderful journey of finding both independence and loyalty among a pretty thrilling conspiracy. Kelly's technologies (including sharing-brain-feeds, deep space travel, print-anything-on-demand) were fully realized, believable, and never got in the way of the story. Not to mention the ending....

enjoyed the audiobook ... wish the next book was already available because it ends rather abruptly!

This is one of those Sci-fi stories that follows someone's life. These can go two ways, one where the character becomes an implausible superhero, fingers in every pie, with the perfect scheme, and another where the story meanders so much that you loose all will to live and wish the author would get to the point.This book balances the two sides well. It's not an action story, but there is lots of action, it's not a slice of life story, but it follows Mariska's coming of age.I felt connected to ou...

Mariska Volochkova is the clone-daughter of Natalia Volochkova, famed deep space explorer. Like her clone-mother, she is genetically engineered for the ability to hibernate, born for interstellar exploration.That's not what Mariska wants, in part because she resents the woman who created her and then took off through the wormhole to a distant galaxy. Mariska was left with contract father Sal, under a term adoption contract, and an artificial intelligence that is her room. More than anything she

This was my first James Patrick Kelly book. Normally I'm not a sci-fi fan, but this one captured me from the first chapter. The characters were well-developed and I was rooting for the protagonist throughout the story.

The writing was fine. This book was just...boring. I could have stopped at any moment and never cared what would happen next.

Evocative SF story of travel beyond the solar system.There is a line from an old Louis Auchincloss story that goes something like: "the flight of birds that meet athwart," which seems to me an apt description of this tale of a space explorer and her clone. Late in life, a Russian scientist, Natalia, longs for a family and decides to clone herself. However, her long absences force her to hire a surrogate father to raise her clone/daughter. The child, Mariska, grows up resenting her such that when...

Paul Di Filippo reviews James Patrick Kelly:http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2017/..."Our tale opens in the year 2159, on the well-settled Moon. We immediately meet our heroine, Mariska Volochkova, a fifteen-year-old immersed in the standard preoccupations of her age and era. Taking her academic lessons; tending hydroponics; learning to adapt to mind feeds (direct person-to-person transmissions into the brain); figuring out what she feels for her tentative boyfriend Jak. ...Kelly develops Mari’s

Mariska is not your typical 22nd century teenager growing up on the Moon. She is a clone of her famous mother, the doctor and spacefarer, Natalia Volochkova. Born in a tank and raised by a father paid to do the job, Mariska rejects everything her absent mother engineered her to be. She is supposed to become a Spacer, travel through the wormhole to the mysterious Builder’s galaxy, but what she does is what any teen does: she defies her mother, parties, and has complicated relationships. But once

I picked this book up because of it's unique audio-only format. It's a well-told story of sci-fi, politics, family, and friendship. The author has a clear disdain for religion and traditional family values that comes out clearly in the book. The sexual content was awkward and I didn't feel it was necessary. The reader (performer) was very good although a few of the male voices sounded the same.

An interstellar journey has so much potential to explore Sci-Fi concepts.James Patrick Kelly manages to weave an incredible number of them on to a colonized solar system so intriguing, that I didn't mind the fact that most of the story happens before the starship even launches.

sometimes i suppose this happens... this book , although i suppose technically what one can call a GOOD book, didnt intrigue me at all.

Mother Go is probably my favorite story written by Jim Kelly. He mashes two things I enjoy dearly in fiction: easily understood hard science fiction in a semi-distant future and a teenager's coming-of-age story written for an older audience. I loved diving into this strange world of neural feeds, body alterations, and space colonies while grounded by familiar concepts like boyfriends, teenage rebellion, and tenuous relationships with family. It's the perfect combination of technical and emotiona...

Set about 100 years in the future, this wonderful sci-fi story takes listeners from the Moon to Mars and beyond. There are interesting characters including a number of clones, a Martian, and some handsome rogues. Intrigue and a conspiracy add to the excitement of training for a one-way mission through a worm hole to a new galaxy and place for humans (and Martians) to colonize.For a different review, check out AudioFile Magazine: http://www.audiofilemagazine.com

I listened to the audiobook, which is the only way it is being released at this time. I liked the first part of the book which was the closest to a YA story, transitioning into a section with tragic overtones. The second half is a starship story with a conspiracy I didn't completely grasp and with a few odd coincidences. The ending is pretty solid, though, with one unexpectedly moving leavetaking episode that I admired. I know the author has spent more time as a short story writer but he did a d...