My barrier to entry is generally the writing itself.
Some of the science is neat, but these characters jet around the solar system like no one's business, blasting past planets and YEARS in the plot a reference was made to an event that took place a year ago, when, in fact, the event had only happened a few pages earlier.Īdded to this, the book frequently devolved into these mindless interludes of technobabble that do little to further the story. Unfortunately, the character (by the time I stopped reading), had only a few "chapters" to speak of. The only remotely interesting storyline in the book, Kiran, who has been transplanted to Venus to assist in terraforming, has any traction. She's a 140-something hermaphrodite of Chinese descent that grew up on Mercury (cool, right?), but at her age, she's completely self-absorbed, asks stupid questions, and selfishly makes HUGE decisions based upon input from an integrated AI in her brain: one day, she simply decided to start a revolution on Earth after seeing poor old people working in post-Saharan Africa's farms. I don't care about the main protagonist AT ALL. I made it about 60% through before I could identify the problems. His world building is great, but something about the novels fail to grab me. I've tried to read Kim Stanley Robinson in the past, and I've managed to plow through. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.So I'm not actually done, but I couldn't make it through. a wise and wondrous novel SFX Beautifully written and with strong mental imagery SCIFI NOW A challenging, compelling masterpiece of science fiction PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - starred review A feast for the imagination and intellect - shockingly clever THE SUN It is a novel of ideas that also sets out to be tremendous fun INDEPENDENT Inherently epic. Wonderful THE DAILY MAIL Goes back to the roots of the sci-fi genre and puts at its centre utopian and dystopian visions of the social models our descendants might inhabit, with a flashy travelogue around the places they might live. fans of the Mars books will delight in this novel new readers will be astonished by the depth, breadth and power of Robinson's invention SUNDAY TIMES The real energy and allure of this book comes from its often gobsmacking and always richly detailed epic vision of an extra-terrestrial future - of habitable asteroids, space elevators, a terraformed Venus and Mercury's magnificent mobile city, always on the run from the dawn and the broiling Sun. Robinson blends mystery and suspense with lyrical evocation of a complex future SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Polymathic, visionary brilliance FINANCIAL TIMES Kim Stanley Robinson is one of science fiction's greats.
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