Robert Defrank’s Reviews > The Rise of Endymion > Status Update

I'm in awe of Simmons' worldbuilding, both in terms of the alien environments he describes, and the human cultures that he extrapolates in those worlds. It's detailed to the point of overindulgent and part of me wants to yell at him to get on with the story, but another part luxuriates in the mountains of T'ien Shan, the leviathan squid of the gas giant, the rich ritual of the Pax. I already see myself rereading this

I'm about a third in and my library hold runs out. Now I've got to wait until I can download again. Fortunately, there's no shortage of books to read in the meantime.