by John C. Wright
I tried to read The Golden Age several years ago and remember that I couldn’t finish it. As I recall, the writing was florid and overblown, and it was a chore to read. While the style here is still florid, it worked for me this time (and I may go back to The Golden Age to see if my opinion of that h...
Interesting and flawed.One solution to the question of what use we could possibly be to a horribly advanced alien race: we will make ourselves useful to compensate them for the cost of conquering us. There isn't really an else. That's not really what this book is about, but it's what I'm taking aw...
Interesting book. Alas, but for the horrible dialogue, flat characters, and lugubrious expository bits, it would've been enjoyable.
I got to page 240 and gave up. Make no mistake, this is hard SF and while I'm sure John C. Wright is brilliant, I found it mostly incomprehensible much of the time. It did get to the story and characters after about 100 pages but then it was a lot of talking and little action and so 140 pages later,...
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