by Kim Stanley Robinson
As a book of historical fiction this book works admirably. Unfortunately the Jovian Story Line almost ruins it. This part is mixed with the historical passages with brief visits to the distant moons of Jupiter - Galileo travelling through both time and space to discover the colonized moons. To begin...
Galileo's Dream was a fascinating novel with a really cool concept. In the novel people from the future living in Jupiter go into the past to meet Galileo. Under the pretense of helping him with his telescope discovery, they transport him into the future to Jupiter. They bring him there because of a...
I enjoyed this book. I knew very little about Galileo's life so it was a lovely experience getting to know such a famous historical figure through the novel. I also loved the insertion of the sci fi element and what that insertion taught Galileo without taking away from his genius. I like the book m...
one penny hardback brand spanking new first edition!first line - All of a sudden Galileo felt that this moment had happened before - that he had been standing in the artisans' Friday market outside Venice's Arsenale and felt someone's gaze on him, and looked up to see a man staring at him, a tall st...
I wonder if this project started off as an attempt at a straight fictional biography, like Doctor Mirabilis which is also about a scientist who falls foul of the Catholic Church? Hard to say, but it stands as a science fiction story in which Galileo is contacted by humans from the distant future who...
I've put off reviewing this in part because I have no idea how to rate it. It's a patchwork of many books: a historical about Galileo, a time travel tale, an exploration into 31st century anarchist politics, a first-contact story about alien intelligence. Some were exquisite; Robinson's evocation of...
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