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Coyote Mass Market Paperback – 1 Dec. 2003

by Allen Steele (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 347 ratings
Coyote marks a dramatic new turn in the career of Allen Steele, Hugo Award-winning author of Chronospace. Epic in scope, passionate in its conviction, and set against a backdrop of plausible events, it tells the brilliant story of Earth’s first interstellar colonists—and the mysterious planet that becomes their home…
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  1. Print length
    436 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Ace Books
  4. Publication date
    1 Dec. 2003
  5. Dimensions
    10.72 x 3.23 x 17.17 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0441011160
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0441011162
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About the Author

Allen Steele was a journalist who covered the space program. He later turned to fiction writing, and his first novel, Orbital Decay, published by Ace Books, was chosen as the best first novel of the year by Locus. Allen himself went on to be nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He began writing and selling to the science fiction magazines and is a three-time Hugo Award winner for his short fiction. In 2013, he received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for outstanding published works in science fiction.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 Dec. 2003
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 436 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0441011160
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0441011162
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 272 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.72 x 3.23 x 17.17 cm
  • Customer reviews:
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Allen Steele

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Allen Steele is a science fiction writer with twenty-three novels and eight collections of short fiction to his credit. His works have been translated worldwide and have received the Hugo, Locus, and Seiun awards, and have been nominated for the Nebula, Sturgeon, and Sidewise Awards. He is also a recipient of the the Robert A. Heinlein Award. His first published story, "Live from the Mars Hotel," was published in 1988, and his first novel, Orbital Decay, was published in 1989. His best-known work is the Coyote series -- Coyote, Coyote Rising, Coyote Frontier, Coyote Horizon, and Coyote Destiny -- and the associative novels set in the same universe: Spindrift, Galaxy Blues, and Hex. A graduate of New England College and the University of Missouri, he is a former journalist, and once spent a brief tenure as a Washington correspondent. He was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, and now lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and dogs.

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  • Arthur _efc
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 August 2014
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    great book
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  • Tomas
    4.0 out of 5 stars Liberty! An book with more depth than expected.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2005
    Format: Mass Market Paperback
    We follow the birth of a colony on a distant planet and it's struggle to survive. It's written more as a collection of diaries and notes of the people in the colony. While it's lacks the central hero character that can take on the universe and win, the shifting viewpoints of the tale gave the book a faint touch of an documentary portraying a tale of rebellion, endeavour and exploration. It's a book in a classic SF manner in the way that it (subject to interpretation of course) brings a central "what if?" issue to the foreground. I got a deeper book than expected and I anticipate thinking about it for awhile.
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  • Craig Skinner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Unputdownable. It's a word.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 October 2006
    I really cannot understand why this book (and the trilogy as a whole for that matter) has been taking such a beating in the reviews. I thought it was outstanding.

    The fact that this book is based on a number of short stories is obvious at some points, if only because a lot of facts are over stated unnecessarily, presumably to 'set the scene' and enable readers to read these short stories individually without needing to read earlier ones. I feel a little better editing could have rectified this, but it's such a small flaw in an otherwise incredible book that it's barely worth mentioning.

    Maybe it's also a testament to Steele's writing ability that these short stories work on their own and as part of a generation spanning trilogy?

    I feel that far too much SF these days is ridiculous and too unbelievable (I know, it is fiction after all) but this book and series gives you something that you can actually imagine happening. It doesn't bombard you with gobbledegook science, it just tells an exciting, imaginative and often emotional story.

    The phrase 'I could not put this book down' is an overused one, but I literally couldn't, and had finished the 3 books in the series in about 10 days.

    I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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  • Jamesm
    3.0 out of 5 stars frustrating
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 August 2022
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    Would like to reccommend this one but find it hard. The book starts off well with a carefully organised mutiny and theft of a star ship from an extreme right wing government. The crew then set off for life on a new planet. It takes them some 200+ years before they arrive, so the politics they left behind are left behind on the colony. The book settles into a slow pace but fails to engage the reader with the new world the colonists have found. Its almost as if the author decided to brush over that in broad brush strokes and concentrate on colonists themselves. It plods along like this until a new ship arrives some two years later.
    It turns out to be space Marxists who have discovered the means of travelling at the speed of light, and transfer human brains into androids...but not it seems plan for long journeys or bring food or supplies with them. The Space Marxists are straight from central casting and invoke every cliche there is about Stalins Russia. These Space Marxists intend to take over a colony and its supplies...without knowing if the colony survived or if it indeed had resources to share. The book fell flat on its face with this new arrival to the plot. Its a post scarcity society that resembles old cold war paranoia about the soviets. I did find myself groaning quite a bit as the book faded out with the colonists leaving their new home but taking all their stuff with them. I've decided not to continue with the series.
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  • A. J. Sudworth
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent start, tailed off in the middle, intriuging end
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 March 2005
    I bought this book thinking that it was a complete new story but its not (or at least this book is not) - it brings together a number of short stories around the colonisation of a planet.
    The start of the book is excellent, the idea of hijacking a ship built by a totalitarian government to create a society based on the values of the original USA on a planet 40 light years from Earth is so full of possibilities. Sadly , the short story nature of the chapters does break up the narrative and instead of getting an overview of the story you get individual perspectives and rites of passage stories makimg up the central section of the book. The last section, where another ship comes from Earth with people and robots from a later, socialist type society which is just as bad from the colonists point of view that sets the scene (I hope)for the rest of the series. Its this turnround at the end that will get me to buy the next one
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  • Adam Sharples
    5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2005
    I'd been reading a lot of good reviews about this book, but after being bitten once before by being led by rubbish reviews and buying a book that was a chore to read I was a little sceptical. However, since this book had be previously serialised in Asimov magazine and as each serialisation had got good reviews I finally decided to take the plunge and get it.
    First impressions of this book is that it's not actually a single novel but three rolled into one. Each one following a story arc but each one telling the story from the eyes of different people. Micro-stories that reveal more of coyote or the character.
    I've never read a book written like this before and this style really lends itself to it. It helps build the important reader/character relationship and by the end of the book you feel as if you have known each character for years and you feel sad that the book had to end. I know I did, I just want more.
    One section in particular, where a member of the Alabama's crew is unexpectedly awoken from hypersleep is a profoundly poignant story and you can't help thinking about what would happen if you were in that situation.
    I really loved this book. The style it's written in is great. The characters well rounded and interesting and the settings are designed well.
    Highly recommended.
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  • CRH
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books about colonization ever written?
    Reviewed in the United States on 5 May 2025
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    Coyote is one of the best books ever written of colonization of another planet in another solar system. I read this book over 15 years ago or so and since then I have read it two times more. I also have read the second and third book in the series and I believe there are two offshoot books in The coyote series. Every time I read these books I feel like I have been transported aboard the "Alabama", and I'm exploring Coyote for the first time. I have read many books about planetary exploration but none compares to this series.
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  • Ryan Armishaw
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book!
    Reviewed in Canada on 17 February 2017
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    Awesome book! It has everything I'd ever want in a science fiction book...intrigue, action, space travel, espionage, exploring new worlds, etc... Well worth the purchase.
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  • NJD1874
    4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable and not too taxing.
    Reviewed in the United States on 9 July 2015
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    Enjoyed it the more I read. Feels like the first episode of a series where you meet everyone.

    Liked it though.
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  • Alex Hill-Gallardo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Hard sci-fi Novel!
    Reviewed in the United States on 22 January 2025
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    Slow but great read! Would recommend books like Orbital Decay (by the same author) for those whom want a faster pace.
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  • AntiochAndy
    3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Opener
    Reviewed in the United States on 31 December 2007
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    I'm a sucker for a good space/planetary exploration story, and I've enjoyed Allen Steele's writing in the past, so I began COYOTE anticipating a good read. Alas, it didn't really live up to my expectations. The book starts off with a right-wing regime in control of the southeastern US and a group of dissidents hijacking Earth's first interstellar colony ship in order to escape. The book goes on to detail the events of the voyage to the new planet, dubbed "Coyote", and the first few years of the new colony.

    All this might have worked well enough, but the story is actually cobbled together from several short stories. As a result, the focus of the book shifts from one central character to another as it moves from one storyline to the next. As a whole, COYOTE has an episodic feel to it, and the benefit of seeing events from more than one viewpoint is wasted as key early players are left to become secondary characters later on.
    Rather than arousing sympathy, conflicts among the characters came across as petty and annoying. In the end, I found myself not caring overly much what happened to any of them.

    COYOTE is apparently the first book of a trilogy. On that basis there's hope that the other installments will turn out to be more coherent and compelling than this one. It's not that it was a bad read, just that it wasn't especially good, either. As a standalone, I wouldn't recommend it. If the entire trilogy turns out to be entertaining, then this one's worth the effort. As things stand, the jury's still out.
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