Steven Gould continues his excellent Jumper series with Exo. This book focuses on Cent, the second generation in a family of people who can teleport. Cent has suffered romantic disappointment and so turns her not inconsiderable talent and attention to the question of using her abilities to get into space. She recruits people who can help (clearly she’ll need a space suit of some kind for example) and in no time at all cracks the problem. In the meantime her family continues to battle against a cadre of villains, whose overall motivation beyond some kind of weird revenge is unclear, and copes with the age related illness suffered by Cent’s grandmother. The book brings us realistic characters, interesting & mostly believable plot points, and a thoughtful presentation of the questions that need to be considered to actually do what the characters are doing. If you disregard the actual teleportation ability, the science questions raised & answered in this book are dead on. I would recommend this to anyone who likes a good SF adventure and even to many who just like a good adventure. The book is readable even if you haven’t read the other titles in the series.
