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3.5 stars. Excellent and masterful worldbuilding with a plethora of distinct characters - some you will like right after you meet them, some you just want to smack on the head. The novel is quite fun actually, I am sure Stan had a good time writing it.
The downside: There are some awkward phasing in it, The denouement was a bit too premature. I liked the slow build up but when the plot strands come together they get concluded too fast and maybe, just maybe, too neat.
I also had issues with the o ...more
The downside: There are some awkward phasing in it, The denouement was a bit too premature. I liked the slow build up but when the plot strands come together they get concluded too fast and maybe, just maybe, too neat.
I also had issues with the o ...more
Robinson plays around with some interesting ideas here, and has carefully constructed a believable and detailed vision of what New York could look like a century from now if we don't get climate change under control. He's truly excellent at the speculative part of speculative fiction. However, I have mixed feelings about his characters and the info-dump sections were, while interesting in some of the information they provided, just painful to read. I agree with reviewers who call the book clunky
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