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Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidon's Children, #1)
by Alastair Reynolds
by Alastair Reynolds
Liviu's review
bookshelves: 2012_release_read, genre-sf, read_2012, review_fbc, series_reading, top_25_2012_novels
Jan 24, 12
bookshelves: 2012_release_read, genre-sf, read_2012, review_fbc, series_reading, top_25_2012_novels
Read from January 19 to 24, 2012
as I plan to have the full FBC rv in a day, just a few comments so far
I liked it quite a lot though I liked In the Mouth of Whale more as i thought the Reynolds novel a bit too long for its content, while the characters do not come as distinguished as they could, especially Geoffrey and Sunday.
There is a lot of great stuff though - the world building top notch, Africa as a major power comes off naturally and pitch perfect, the Aquatics, the Moon, the Martians, the Mech, the AI phobia of the society and the dispute between the bio-first and the tech-first powers/corporations; as speculation about a mid 2100's Earth (and nearby solar system) the book is simply unrivaled in recent sf and if only for that and it will be a top 25 of mine.
The underwater scenes are just unbelievable if too short, but those few pages are worth the novel by themselves, not to speak of the Moon stuff and the Martian one; lots of humor and the Pyhthagorean adventure (read the book to find out about it) just cracked me up laughing;
As storylines go the book while a page turner, feels a little too long with some action sequences that could have been shortened for a better impact, while the really cool ones turn to be more of a sideways detour - at least as of now of course since there will be more.
a great ending which makes the novel a quasi-standalone, though of course I want to know what happens next in the Poseidon's Children series
I liked it quite a lot though I liked In the Mouth of Whale more as i thought the Reynolds novel a bit too long for its content, while the characters do not come as distinguished as they could, especially Geoffrey and Sunday.
There is a lot of great stuff though - the world building top notch, Africa as a major power comes off naturally and pitch perfect, the Aquatics, the Moon, the Martians, the Mech, the AI phobia of the society and the dispute between the bio-first and the tech-first powers/corporations; as speculation about a mid 2100's Earth (and nearby solar system) the book is simply unrivaled in recent sf and if only for that and it will be a top 25 of mine.
The underwater scenes are just unbelievable if too short, but those few pages are worth the novel by themselves, not to speak of the Moon stuff and the Martian one; lots of humor and the Pyhthagorean adventure (read the book to find out about it) just cracked me up laughing;
As storylines go the book while a page turner, feels a little too long with some action sequences that could have been shortened for a better impact, while the really cool ones turn to be more of a sideways detour - at least as of now of course since there will be more.
a great ending which makes the novel a quasi-standalone, though of course I want to know what happens next in the Poseidon's Children series
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