Review from Bad Luck Charlie →
This book is a mixture of “The Martian” “John Carter from Mars” and some generic fantasy/sci-fi tropes. The pacing is strange in places, and the narration is flat: the guy just can’t do voices. To be honest, I probably shouldn’t have liked this book as much as I did. But it was *fun.* In terms..
warning not as advertised if your thinking space pirates and dragons with a cool dude saving the universe this is not it . its all about him being a slave and being a whiney chunk of crap
There is an amazing cast of narrator’s that bring the many threads of this story to life. 22 hours went by super fast.
The book is a great – a compelling look at near future. The performances, though sometimes good, are sometimes bizarre caricatures, with mispronounciations throughout (diaspora as die-uh-SPORE-uh, Kerala as care-AH-lah, Army Corps of Engineers as Army “corpse” of Engineers, etc.). And some narrators add almost cartoonish levels of “emotion,” making it sometimes feel like a..
Review from Bad Luck Charlie →
I enjoy the style and the feel of the book and story. Getting the next one now
A mind numbing geographic hopscotch across continents, with fleeting characters, and more particulate readings than plot.
in this day and age everyone should read this book. it should be required learning in school. because everything faced in this book is going to be the things faced by the human race in the years to come I only hope we tackle the challenges as they do
fantastic book! if only there were enough brave, intelligent, authentic humans to pull this off IRL we’d maybe survive ourselves. this book is “Ecotopia” writ global. the california descriptions especially brilliant, as if Hawthorne crewed a dirigible instead of a schooner… it is inspirational and poetic, a nerdfest of science fancy across many fields of..
Review from The Break →
A weird story and no explanation why it all happened and the inner voice thing was annoying.
Review from The Ministry for the Future →
Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future is tale about addressing climate change. While the main plot revolves around the head of a UN agency charged with addressing global warming and an individual suffering from PTSD due to a catastrophic heat wave, various discussions concerning the economic, legal, political, sociological, financial, and philosophical aspects..