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Sep 19, 2022
Loretta
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sci-fi-and-fantasy,
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This was a big book (30 hours of audio) and it's hard science fiction - mostly. The first two thirds has a lot of science about space, yep. "Orbital mechanics" explained in great detail, and in ways that are HIGHLY plot and character relevant, which is pretty impressive. And the story did pull me along, the characters and relationships were interesting (in the first two thirds, anyway), and the whole apocalypse thing was pretty dramatic. Like, this is an ACTUAL WORLD-ENDING event, not just a pot
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If I had been rating just the first two-thirds of this book it would have gotten a 5 star review. But the last third felt like it either should have been left off, or, better yet, fleshed out into its own book altogether. And at almost 900 pages it's not like that couldn't have been done.
The main crux of the book though - which follows the discovery of a coming apocalypse, the fall out and the survivors - was just brilliant. The characters were engaging, infuriating, and ultimately felt very rea ...more
The main crux of the book though - which follows the discovery of a coming apocalypse, the fall out and the survivors - was just brilliant. The characters were engaging, infuriating, and ultimately felt very rea ...more
This is one of my favorite books ever. The narration for the audiobook is great. The author describes the story in Tolkienesque detail. This is in a short stack of books that I regularly reread whenever I need something familiar and comforting, and it always pulls me out of whatever reading funk I've fallen into.
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if you've ever wondered how humans got into space and survived in the movie Wall-E, this is your book.
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Long but good hard sci fi. I liked the first two parts much more than the third (last) part.
Nov 03, 2015
Laine
marked it as to-read
Nov 17, 2015
Julianne Dunn
marked it as to-read
Dec 14, 2015
Kim Marques
marked it as to-read
Dec 29, 2015
Lori
marked it as to-read
Mar 12, 2016
Lauren
rated it
it was amazing
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science-fiction-et-al,
speculative-fiction
Mar 22, 2016
Michelle
marked it as to-read
