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Kim Stanley Robinson,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Orbit on 05-22-2012
Kim Stanley Robinson,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Orbit on 05-22-2012
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780316098120
Publish date: 22-05-2012
Publisher: Orbit
Edition language: English
I finally picked up a copy of 2313 by Kim Stanley Robinson, the winner of the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Novel, at my local library last week. I spent the next week struggling through the first 200 pages of this book. I have put the book down and do not plan to continue reading it. While I am sure t...
Meh, just so very MEH. I could not get into this book at all, and I usually eat this shit up. Something about the style, so heady and full of detached people, just turned me off. Robinson undeniably has a way with words, but his storytelling (at least in this book, haven't read any of his other work...
This was an amazing book in many, many ways. First, I am in awe of Kim Stanley Robinson's ranging imagination from depicting life on Mercury and a cult of sun walkers who follow the sun around the planet, always keeping in the shade, to the body surfing in the rings of Saturn. This book reminded mor...
One of the most enjoyable novels I've ever had the pleasure to read. Challenging, thought provoking, optimistic and pragmatic, Robinson is on top form as he inverts expectations and reconsiders everything from our genders to our politics, from how similar we are to how different we might be, from ho...
Started out loving it--fascinating ideas! Well written! Complex, thorough worldbuilding! Clearly building to something big!In the middle, thought it was fascinating and all, but too long. Still building and putting pieces together, though...By the end, the fascinating had taken a backseat and it was...
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