Lyle

An emotional roller-coaster of a story, for sure, but one worth reading if you have any sort of affinity for felines. The author obviously is a keen observer and writes quite well.

If you are looking for a book (or series) that provides a "classic" sense of wonder with well-written prose and interesting characters, you can add this book (along with the previous "World Engines: Destroyer") to your TBR. This is Baxter at the top of his game, IMHO.

A repetition of the blurb on the front cover should suffice: "A sense of grandeur few other SF novelists can even hope to match". I am excited to begin reading the sequel.

Definitely not for the general public; I was rather disappointed to find out that this book is more suitable for college students than the average non-mathematician. From page one, I found the text to be rather specialized and beyond that commonly in use by the casual reader. The author quite obviously has enthusiasm for the subject matter and provided copious amounts of diagrams and images, but it wasn't enough, sadly.