Death's End

4.5 stars rounded up. I wasn't originally going to read the 3rd book in this series right away, but after having read the first two I was lulled into this comfortable state when reading these. Maybe because the writing is so flat and boring it gives me permission to not worry about whether this book is good or “cool”. And the writing is indeed flat. In classic sci fi tradition this book is full of incredible ideas and incredibly boring writing and characters and story. This is true for all the books in this series. But the ideas, my god the ideas. Some of the best, most interesting and grounded ideas I've ever come across in a sci fi book. They all seem mostly based in reality too.

The exception to all of this is the chapter about Singer, which might be one of the coolest and best written and most interesting chapters in all of sci fi.

This series definitely has its problems but I'm still glad I read them all and this book was my favorite of all of them, I think the series gets better and better as it goes on. Going to be weird to read something else after this, I'm so used to the universe contained in these books.