There were many things I loved about 2312. It was filled with imagination and a foretelling of life from the most basic level to the grandest. It had the potential to sweep the reader up and carry them off into a world that was richly detailed in all the right places, and yet left the perfect amount...
There were many things I loved about 2312. It was filled with imagination and a foretelling of life from the most basic level to the grandest. It had the potential to sweep the reader up and carry them off into a world that was richly detailed in all the right places, and yet left the perfect amount...
As great as the world building is, and as much as it, maybe inadvertently, seems to continue from the Mars trilogy, the story is flat and Swan is unlikable. Unlike Mars, which worked as a future history, this seemed to be more of a mystery, a mystery that kept getting sidetracked and one that the ma...
Perhaps I didn't like this more because the time spent drifting about the solar system slowed down the momentum. It is an espionage thriller in form, although too digressive to be thrilling. It's a future in which people live much longer, and most of the human settlements are beyond scarcity. Earth,...
Well for a blog that is supposed to be multi-genre and focused on epic, this is completely the wrong book to start that off with. Its bad timing partially, but going into this I knew that epic isn't a genre so much as a trait shared by many genres. Epic action, epic horror, epic survival, epic roman...
I think Kim Stanley Robinson has become an important writer. I don't usually talk in these terms about authors. How good they are? Yes. How much I like them? Yes. Possibly how significant they are to me, personally. But rarely do I do what I'm about to and say that a writer is highly skilled, ambiti...
I remember reading an account of the reactions from viewing the first photograph of the earth in full view--the famous "Blue Marble" shot taken on December 7, 1972 as the Apollo 17 crew left Earth’s orbit for the moon. One awe-struck soul stammered out something like "The rest is art." 2312 provides...
I'm doing a vlog post on this book later, but to put a long story short, I feel that the travelogue part of the narrative and the conspiracy part of the narrative just didn't mesh, and ultimately made reading the book an unpleasant slog. Thus, I'm lemming this book.
My five-starring this was probably knee-jerk, spun as I was by the fresh-faced awe I experienced as a nerd seeking to recapture the nerd-awe of the planet spinning to a pin-prick, the harsh little port window into the black, the hard line of the imagined horizon with a tiny, space-suited person for ...
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