Emma
** I received a copy of this book from the publisher.
I really wanted to enjoy Emily Eternal because the premise sounded really interesting. An artificial consciousness trauma counsellor trying to figure out their purpose during the end of the world. But there was so much I didn't like about the book which overshadowed it.
Firstly Emily's characterisation which was downright weird. It felt like I was seeing the story through the eyes of a teenager. This came across as a serious story written (I'm guessing) for adults. Then you have Emily with all sorts of interesting quotes like “I've felt no return to my expanded (and totes goddess-of-information-like) abilities”.
If you like YA romance books I guess you'll like this because thats basically what it is. Emily isn't like other girls (literally). And she gets her totally hot boyfriend. The whole intimacy thing between Emily and ?? (I'm going to say Kevin) was really weird. Emily doesn't physically exists, she's like a hologram projected onto the character's brain. But they manage to have sex. I'm not going to ask how.
I think the most annoying part of the plot was how it set up the rules for how the world works and then proceeds to break them. Even though Emily is a trauma counsellor she can manipulate cells and DNA. But apparently curing cancer is a step too far. In the space of two chapters she also taught herself how to swim and fight. Don't even ask me how the story ends because I read the ending three times and I still couldn't tell you.
The world just didn't seem believable. Too many science things were explained away with its basically just magic. I've literally read stories about moving an entire planet which felt more believable than this because it was grounded in science.
Basically its like Seveneves. If Seveneves was a YA fantasy book rather than hard science fiction.
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Imagine a book which starts out like Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. The middle is a little like the start of Red Rising by Pierce Brown. The end is somewhere between Children of Time and The Freeze-Frame Revolution. That is sort of where Noumenon lies.
I wouldn't say I loved Noumenon. But it also wasn't terrible. The premise is that a scientist finds a star, and humans decide to send a fleet of ships to investigate this star. Its a story set on a generational ship, so there are going to be some predictable elements. The strange thing is that this book features all the plot points you would expect from a book like this.
Losing contact with earth, revolutionaries trying to take over the ship, reaching the goal of the mission, mechanical problems, then getting back to earth. It almost felt like the author had a list of items which needed to be featured in the story. But the result was it felt like they had been shoehorned in.
What made it harder to enjoy the book was the characters. The story is told through a series of short stories. All told from the point of view of different characters on the fleet. With a good amount of time between these stories. The result was that it was hard to feel for the characters. Because you're only with them for a short while.
But the fleet is staffed by clones, so you have different generations of the same clone appearing. It's almost like you're to think of the character is the same, though they are on a different version of the clone. But that doesn't work because a huge plot point of the book is showing how clones are different, even though their DNA is the same.
It probably didn't help that I read Noumenon immediately after Record of A Spaceborn Few so it was hard to no compare the two. Both are about a fleet of generational ships, on a journey for one reason or other. But where the Becky Chambers book excelled is that it's a little story, with the setting in the background. Yes, it's on a ship travelling somewhere, but it's not about that.
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This third part of the Wayfarers series focuses on the Exodan Fleet. This has been mentioned a few times in Long Way to A Small Angry Planet and A Closed And Common Orbit. But this third book is set on the Exodan fleet and is about the group of people living on it.
The Exodan fleet is the last of the humans who left Earth because it was dying. They built huge generational ships for humanity to live on and set off into the stars. This book is set around 70 years after the Exodan Fleet joined the Galactic Commons – this universe's version of the Federation. They have been given new technology and even a star to orbit. But it seems the Exodan Fleet are still searching for a proper place to live.
I think the thing I love most about this whole series is how humanity is portrayed. In a lot of science fiction books, humans are the strongest, smartest, they run the galaxy. The humans of Wayfarers are vastly different. To aliens they smell, they are too exuberant. They live in clunky old ships and are still searching for something. The way it's put in the book is that the other alien species have had the time to adapt to space travel. But the humans are still trying to figure that part out, where they fit into the universe.
Before starting Record Of A Spaceborn Few I had seen one complaint that it wasn't very science-fiction-like. And I guess that's true to an extent. This whole series is more speculative science fiction. But this book, in particular, is very character driven. Unlike the first two books in the Wayfarers series, this has a large cast of characters. They all seem separate at first but as the story goes on you become invested as their stories intertwine.
I love that this series is normalising gender neutral language and LGBT pairings in science-fiction. In the past sci-fi was a man's genre. All the authors were men and the stories all had that white, male perspective. Aliens were all vaguely human-shaped, women were mostly just there for sex. I really like the fact sci-fi authors are beginning to realise alien species would be totally different from our norm and so you can't write them with our human biases.
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This particular book is the second in a series of short stories written by Watts called the Sunflower Cycle. The other short stories have been written over the last 10 years and can be found for free on Watt's website. The correct reading order for the series is Hotshot, The Freeze-Frame Revolution, The Island and Giants. However you could quite easily jump in at this second book and not miss anything.
The conflict in The Freeze-Frame Revolution mainly comes from the differing politics between the humans and AI. The humans spend most of their time in stasis, waking every thousand years if the CHIMP needs help creating a wormhole gate. This is a job they have been doing for millions of years, and will seemingly continue on to the heat death of the universe. Unless they are given some sort of sign telling them to stop. Even though they have already been working long past the mission's original end time.
If you would like a modern comparison think of Curiosity, alone, exploring the surface of Mars. NASA engineer's thought it would have broken down long ago, but it continues to run, meaning it continues to send back data. This is similar to the crew of the Eriophora. However so much time has now passed that it may be impossible for humans, or whatever humans have evolved into, to send a signal ending their mission. However the AI doesn't quite see these things the same way.
Peter Watts has done a brilliant job of making this book feel dark. Time is an important factor to the plot and Watts makes you feel like time is passing, this isn't an easy task, especially when nothing on the ship is really changing. Sunday has a regular job, except when she sleeps 1000 years go by. But Watts puts it into perspective by comparing the time that has passed to how far into the past that represents. A few hundred years, a few thousand and then long before the time of the dinosaurs.
I think there is an element of horror to this book, and it's not because the plot. It comes from putting time in perspective. The big bang was a very long time ago, Sunday spends even more time on the Eriophora, millions and millions of years, and they aren't even half way to the heat death of the universe. Time is long and human lives are short.
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I think the best way to describe Artemis is it's a heist story. Artemis is an established base on the Moon. Our main character Jasmine (Jazz for short) is a porter, basically a futuristic version of the DPD guy. Jazz is also a smuggler on the side and is asked to interfere with Artemis' oxygen supply so that another company can take over the contract to supply it.
Of course it wouldn't be a Andy Weir book without a heavy emphasis on actual science. Obviously I have no idea if it's accurate or not but he goes into quite extensive detail about chemical reactions and how airlocks work. It's actually very clever what he has managed to achieve by doing that.By basing this world in our reality as much as possible, by using real science and chemistry he has made the world feel real. You could almost believe this is what a base on the Moon would be like.
The most noticeable thing about this book is how diverse it is. Science fiction has definitely got better when it comes to diversity but it still has a long way to go. The main character, Jazz, is from Saudi Arabia, she states that she isn't religious though her father is. There is a little note about the problems of facing towards Mecca to pray while not on the same planet as it which I really liked.
The other characters come from a number of different parts of the world. It also features a number of LGBT characters and we see one person with a disability who actually chose to live on the Moon as it allowed her to be more mobile. I think the only thing I would have liked was to see Jazz with some female friends. Also there is nothing about the problems of having periods while wearing a spacesuit. Which I thought might get a mention considering the plot.
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There are two things you need to know about this book. The first is that read almost all of it in a single day. The second is that I was only 25% of the way through this when I went and preordered the next book. I think that says more of how I feel about this book than any other versions of “I like it” that I could come up with.
The strange thing I find with this book is it isn't in a genre I normally read. This may be a surprise but I don't read massive amounts of YA any more because I always feel that I can't connect with the characters. But for some reason I love this. I love that it's about the Library of Alexandria which is this thing people always go on about how amazing it would be if it were still around. But it's about freedom of information which is turning into a really important thing in the world we're living in just now.
I like the fact that this gang of kids actually has some adult figures around. Telling them what they are doing may not be the best or right thing to do. One of the things that always annoys me about YA books is how the adult characters being forgotten. In this the adults are part of the “gang”.
I love that you have a diverse cast of characters. It touches on sexuality and normalises LGBT relationships. The characters feel real because they are all motivated by something. Their actions aren't always the right ones. It feels like an adventure. And I love that this book made me feel real sadness when a robot cat died. Of course I also love that it's a book about books.
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This book is a little like Game of Thrones, McDonald has created a plot that weaves and intercrosses each other. The power struggle between the Dragons is full of political scheming, each double crossing the other. The alliances between the character are just as full of intrigue, I think thats what makes this series so enjoyable to read. The characters feel fully formed, each having their own triumphs and flaws.
I think the thing I liked most about this book was the sense of scale. Everything feels epic. From the descriptions of the underground cities, to events like a massive foundry explosion and satellites raining down on the Moon. Then you have the more abstract things like a character born on the moon going to Earth despite this being technically impossible and describing what it's like to stand on another planet and look up at their home. That was cool.
I found it annoying that the first half of Luna: Wolf Moon is spent catching up with the main characters. Finding out what has happened in the two years since Luna: New Moon. It felt like the plot took a long time to get going. But I would still highly recommend this book. Also you should definitely start out with Luna: New Moon if you haven't read it yet.
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I have to thank Jess over at EverTheCrafter for recommending this book to me, which she did after I tried to read The Invisible Library and failed (it was a terrible book). Ink and Bone is sort of similar in that it's a book about books. But it is also so much more. In Ink and Bone, the Library of Alexandria still exists. But the Library has turned into an evil organisation that controls all the information in the world. It does this by keeping all genuine books locked away. Only allowing people to read copies of them through ancient Kindle-like technology.
Maybe it's just cause I do graphic design and have been learning about printing recently. But I love the fact that the most dangerous thing in this universe is a printing press. Copying or creating new books is banned. Johannes Gutenberg, the creator of the printing press, is in jail for his invention.
Jess comes from a family of smugglers who trade and sell original copies of books. But Jess doesn't want to join the family business. This is the point where I started getting Harry Potter flashbacks. Jess, along with other applicants get on a train to Alexandria. Where they hope to compete to get a position at the Library.
Another note, I don't mind books that have similarities to Harry Potter. What I object to is books where one of the major selling points is that it's like Harry Potter. Those books tend to never be as good as they claim.
Have I mentioned that I liked this book yet? It's a great YA adventure story. I love that one of the characters is a muslim. And that her character is more than just her religion. Two of the male characters are in a relationship and no one questions it. I love this book and am going to pretty much immediately start the second.
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The best way to describe Too Like The Lightning is very confusing. Ada Palmer is a historian which explains the strange way this book has been written. It's almost as if the main character is telling you what happened. In fact that is exactly what it is like. At some points the character is talking to the reader like they are the one who wrote this book not Ada Palmer. This does mean it's almost written in a style that you could imagine came from the 24th century. It's not flowery but you have to take time and really pay attention. In fact I only read two chapters of this at a time. It's the sort of book that you need to go away and think about. Not because it is especially deep. It's just that sort of book.
Too Like The Lightning is the sort of book you really need to read yourself. My experience reading it was more similar to reading something from the 18th century rather than science fiction. Which I suppose makes sense really because I'm sure Ada Palmer took inspiration from 18th century writers. I know I've only given this 3 stars but personally I feel it's the sort of book I have to go back and read again just because it's so dense. I'm going to need to do that soon however because the next book comes out in March.
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This book is the second part of a duology which means it's going to be difficult to review without giving away spoilers. But I'm going to try it anyway. It's better if you imagine this book like an urban fantasy version of Ocean's Eleven. It's this weird adventure story about a group of friends trying to save one of their own and then go on to con a bunch of business people out of their money.
The characterization is one of the things I love so much about this book. The characters feel so real. They all feel like genuine people. And they all have their own flaws and quirks. Not only that it's a diverse range of characters. From the colour of their skin to sexuality. It's not made obvious but these characters aren't all stick thin as well which is a big thing in a fantasy book.
I don't really know what else I can say about this. I love this story and I love these characters. But two books isn't anywhere near enough to tell all their stories.
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This is a really great collection of short science fiction stories. Stories of Your Life is an enjoyable read on its own. It's really interesting seeing how it has been adapted into a full motion picture. But then there are another heap of short stories, some more interesting than others. Though I enjoyed enough of them to make this book purchase worthwhile. Towers of Babylon was particularly good.
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I think the best way to describe this book is it's about an artificial intelligence having an existential crisis. It's about much more than that too. It's about learning how to be a person and learning how to be tolerant of other species. But it's mostly about an artificial intelligence having an existential crisis. And let's be real here. If you were an AI thrown into a body and told to act like a human you would have some problems too.
I should really start at the beginning. A Closed And Common Orbit is the sort of sequel to The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet. I say sort of because though you don't have to read Small, Angry Planet it does set up the universe these books are set in and Orbit does mention some of the things that happened in Planet so it may be helpful to read the first book before going into this.
I think my favourite thing about this whole series is the universe it's set in. The whole point of these whole books is the characters learning to be tolerant of other species (something we desperately need nowadays). But it's also interesting because Humans aren't the dominant species in this universe. Which means they don't have some of the privileges others may have. They are more like the Bolians of this universe. Or the Ferengi. Something like that.
But it's also really clever how Becky Chambers has set up extremely different species, you don't have any alien of the week here where the only difference from human is a strangely shaped forehead. Everything is different about each species. From their physiology to politics to language and even to the way they rear children. It's nice having a sci-fi book with so much diversity in it.
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If you haven't heard of the Old Kingdom series before this is a set of fantasy books set in a world where one part of the world is like normal 21st century and the other half is magic. It has this really interesting magic system where magic is literally drawn in the air. The whole series focuses on the current Abhorsen, this is a necromancer tasked with protecting the world from dead creatures and various other bad things.
The magic system is my favourite thing about this series. First of all you have the charter marks (magic) that can be used and imbedded into things to give them magical properties (swords for example). We have dead things that can come back from the dead and a necromancer who has to protect everyone from the dead things. They do that with a series of magical bells that can control the dead things. And there is the fact that death is an actual place the necromancers, it's explained as being a river but there are various levels to ‘death' which people go through before finally arriving at the ‘ninth gate' where they die the final death.
Goldenhand is the fifth book in this series and it is a direct sequel to Abhorsen which was the third book (the fourth book Clariel, was set 500 years before the others). The thing you have to understand is Abhorsen was released in 2003 and I read it around then. So I have basically been waiting 13 years for this book. I've been waiting so long for this book I gave up hope of there ever being a sequel to Abhorsen. So I had extremely high expectations for this, not only because I've been waiting a long time for it. But this has to come after the huge finale in Abhorsen which saw the main characters destroying literally the most evil thing to have ever existed in this universe. And I'm amazed to say it lived up to those expectations.
The main character of Goldenhand is a strong independent woman who don't need no man (this could be said about the whole series). Okay so this book is about her falling in love but thats okay because we have seen Lireal grow as a character over the last two books and she went from being a shy librarian to a kick ass necromancer who literally saved the universe. Even the whole falling in love thing is fine because it fits with her story. This love isn't something that came out of nowhere, Nix was hinting at it in the last book. And it fits with her growing up and learning how to cope with her new role.
Even after 5 books the dead still feel scary. In these books the dead are zombie-like creatures that are repelled by water. They take lots of different shapes. Some are dead bodies whose spirits were brought back to life by a necromancer. Over the last 5 books there have been numerous times where our main character was being chased by some type of dead creature. But Nix still manages to make those moments scary and you actually fear for the characters life.
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I was a little sceptical of this book because of Bowie's recent death. It kind of felt that the publishers were using that as a way to sell more books. And yes this book was written after Bowie died. The author talks about where he was when he found out the news. I really don't like companies using the death of a celebrity as advertising (I'm still mad about the mural Facebook put up in Glasgow), but this book does a good job of eulogising Bowie's life.
There is a part in this where the author talks about how most of Bowie's younger fans found him through Labyrinth and I was one of those people who came across him through that. I wasn't even born yet when Bowie was at his biggest, I had only heard his music because my dad was a fan and when in the car we listened to what he liked. But Bowie was one of those musicians I came to enjoy even though he was before my time.
The book is a biography, it tells you about Bowie's life and how he became the pop sensation he now is. But it also goes into the impact he made on the 60s and 70s. How he changed music and how he showed that it was okay to be openly gay and wear flamboyant clothes. It goes into why he wrote certain songs and what they were about and then it goes on to show how his songs influenced and inspired other musicians and songwriters.
I'm still not keen on using a celebrity's death to sell books. But this looks at why there was such a huge outpouring of grief when the news of his death broke and as a way to memorialise him I think it's pretty good.
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This book is essentially a road trip story. We meet the main character Meena as she is running away from her home (in India) and going on a journey to Djibouti to find out what happened to her parents. She does this by walking across a 3000 km bridge connecting Mumbai and Djibouti. But this isn't really a bridge, and she isn't really meant to be on it. It's a series of interconnecting scales crossing the Arabian Sea which uses the waves to collect kinetic energy and turn it into electricity.
I think the thing I enjoyed most about this book is it's diversity. The main character is Indian. It deals with racism between Indians and Africans. It's very open about sexuality, the main character being pansexual. It also has a trans character, I quite liked that nothing was made of it. Just oh this person is now a woman no big deal. It even touches on problems like how do you do the toilet in the middle of the ocean and what is this character going to do about her periods since she is almost certainly going to have one while on this journey. This is one thing that has really started to annoy me about sci-fi, most of it is written by men, most of it is about white people (also usually men) so it's really nice to finally come across a sci-fi book that does something different.
The only thing that let this book down was the epilogue. Simply because it was confusing and left more questions than answers. You could actually not read the epilogue and still get full, if not more enjoyment out of this book. Basically if I have to go search the internet to find out what's going on in the epilogue it's not a good epilogue. But I liked everything else.
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I have to start out by saying I didn't really want to read Europe At Midnight. The only reason I bought it is because it was nominated for the Arthur C Clarke award this year and I decided to review the whole shortlist. I didn't want to read this because that I wasn't a fan of Europe In Autumn, but I think it's partly my own fault that I didn't like it. I went into that book expecting a sci-fi story (I mean you would expect that if a book has been nominated for a sci-fi award right?) and what I actually found was a very well written spy novel with a little bit of science-fiction bolted on at the end. And I think that shock at not getting what I expected was a large part of the reason I didn't like that book, to the point where I want to go read it again knowing it's really more of a spy novel.
Anyway that's enough about the first book. Europe At Midnight is the sequel to Europe In Autumn and is partially set in one of the pocket universes you are introduced to at the end of the first book. This particular universe is essentially a large university campus and our main character is a type of detective who lives there. Look I'm going to be totally honest. I read this and I still don't fully understand the whole plot, you're better off reading the blurb than reading my attempt at summarising it.
I suppose that may also give you an idea of how I feel about this book (you may also like to know I finished it and immediately put it on my to-be-donated pile). Basically this book was just okay. I really liked the spy aspect of it but the rest was kind of boring. The characters were fine, you have two main characters and because of the way it was written I found it really difficult telling who's point of view the story was being told from. The beginning wasn't so bad for this because the characters were in two separate places but by the end I had no idea what character was talking.
The ending was very meh. It didn't have any real conclusion, it sort of just stopped. In fact I vaguely remember having this same problem with Europe In Autumn. The only good thing I can tell you about this book is you don't need to read the first to understand what is going on in this one (and I can say that with complete certainty because I remember very little of what happened in the first book). Basically it was just okay. But if you want a good spy novel go read something by John Le Carre instead.
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While this is technically just a review of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy the book, I'm also going to be talking quite a bit about the movie. I'll let you decide for yourself if it can still be considered a book review. I'm also going to keep this as spoiler free as possible as you should really go into this book knowing as little as you can.
The thing that struck me most about Tinker Tailor is that it reminded me of Cloud Atlas. Now I don't mean that in the stories are similar. I mean the overall story can be enjoyed in two very different ways. Either through the book or the movie. And the interesting thing is there is no better version of the story. Both are very different takes on the same thing. You can read the book and by doing so get something more out of the movie and in return you can watch the movie and get more out of the book. Some bloggers would probably argue at this point that you should read the book first because that came first. But this story is one of those interesting things where you need read and watch both multiple times to get the full enjoyment.
I almost feel strange reviewing a mystery book because I have never been able to work out if I actually like this genre. And after reading this I think I have worked it out. I loved this book. I loved it for the fact that it's a very character driven story. The whole mystery is solved through Smiley talking to people. Now you can compare this so some other mystery books which are really more CSI: Mystery Thing where the story is solved by finding evidence and doing the science stuff that points to the bad guy. I much prefer the character focused stories and this in particular has made me want to read more like it.
Now I'm not going to talk about the end too much, but suffice to say I have watched the movie at least 8 times (it took me that many rewatches just to understand what was going on) and I was still blown away by the ending in the book. Nothing was significantly different. One good thing about Tomas Alfredson's movie adaptation is it stays very close to the original story. But despite knowing what was going to happen, I was still amazed by it actually happening. I'm guessing most of you guys know how it ends. I mean the book has been out for 40 years, there must be some statute of limitations on spoilers.
Anyway if you like mysteries read this one.
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Stiletto by Daniel o'Malley is the long awaited sequel to The Rook (which you should totally read if you haven't already) and the only way I can really describe these books is it's the british version of Men In Black but with more fantastical creatures and British humor. In fact I think the very very British humor in this was the thing that stood out the most to me. This book is very very silly, it doesn't take itself too seriously and that makes for a very enjoyable read.
However that doesn't necessarily make this a good read. I liked it but it wasn't great. It seemed to drag on forever in parts. There was quite a lot of unnecessary exposition especially around the history of the Grafters. The Rook was written entirely from Myfanwy's point of view so I was thrown off quite bad when I found this was written from a number of different pov's. The end part takes place in Scotland and I couldn't enjoy it because it seemed that o'Malley hadn't consulted a map at all before writing distances. I realise there are parts of Scotland that are totally uninhabited for miles and miles but it would have taken all of 5 minutes for him to learn that everything is very close together in central Scotland. Okay mini rant over. But I have to say though it wasn't very good, I still enjoyed it. Maybe even if you don't read this give The Rook a try because it works very well as a standalone novel.
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It's really hard to review this book because I don't want to give away any spoilers but I'm finding I have to give some parts away to explain this book. Essentially this is the story of a giant alien robot. There is quite a lot more to it than that and the story is more about a bunch of scientists finding various large metal body parts which turn out to be a giant alien robot. And really when you think about it that shouldn't be a surprise at all considering the book is called Sleeping Giants but you really don't expect an author to be quite so literal with the title of their book so it's surprising to come across a book that actually tells you what the story is about.
Anyway this book was okay I guess. I liked it. The story was fascinating. I liked the characters. I even enjoyed how it was written through a series of reports and interviews (I've been looking for something like this ever since reading World War Z). But the problem is despite enjoying the book, it felt more like it was setting up the next book rather than actually being a story. Basically you should look at this as being the prologue to something that I hope will be even better.
But yeah. A book about giant alien robots. It's what you would expect the result to be if you mixed The Iron Giant, Pacific Rim and Greek mythology and yet at the same time it's like none of those things. Basically you need to read and decide for yourself if it's good.
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I think I should start this review by mentioning the cover of this book which is so pretty I took one look at it and immediately decided I needed to read this book. It wasn't even the cover of the first book I saw (this whole series has super pretty covers), all I knew is it was science-fiction, it was written by Stephen Baxter and it had to be mine. Now I know many people will say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover (even though we all do) and I am very pleased to say that this book is as good as it's cover.
I think the best way to describe this book is to compare it to Interstellar. Both start out on Earth and are about scientists who find a thing in space and so decide to send people out to take a closer look at the thing in space. But this is where it starts to get weird. Because the closest thing to an antagonist in this book is a bunch of smart squid. Yes, smart squid. And it's not even like the squid are really evil, they are just hanging out in space doing their thing which just so happens to prevent the scientists from doing their thing.
But there is a chapter that gets really weird which involves a squid being sent into the future. I don't mean a few thousand years, I mean trillions and trillions of years into the future, basically to the end of the universe. And that chapter is pretty terrifying if I'm going to be honest, because it shows a very bleak outlook for the human race. You basically get to see a race of people trying to survive by mining black holes for energy. And it's pointed out that even this won't be enough, at some point there won't be any more black holes and no matter how much this race of future beings tries to avoid it everything is going to turn to dust in the end. I think the even scarier thing is that most of the science behind this is real, seriously, if you want to terrify yourself go google the heat death of the universe. It might just ruin your day.
So basically Time is like Interstellar but better and with more science and smart jellyfish and even though it gets a little weird at the end nothing can compare to how weird the ending of Interstellar was.