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2.0étoiles sur 5
1000 years, and it seemed much longer..., Mars 29 2002
Baxter is very good with up-to-date science, and if you want a science lecture on stellar dynamics, dark matter or singularities, this is a good textbook for you. But if you want a highly engaging story with developed characters, I'd skip this one. Mr. Baxter's editor must think that characters are just window dressing, in which case the characters in Ring are perfect, because they display all the life signs of a group of mannequins.
Although the science is generally very well used, there are plot inconsistencies which really bothered me. For one thing, this story is supposed to take place in two time frames: 1000 years and five million years. This little detail seems to be ignored when in comes to showing character development and technological development. 1000 years is seemingly enough time for the technology to have improved quite a bit. Five million years should have enabled technological development to answer all the problems faced by the crew of the Great Northern. I have to say that the only reason I finished this book was because I was on vacation and had nothing else to read. It was, I think, about the driest read I've had since the last Rama book.
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Sadly, I was disappointed, Janv. 31 2002
I'm not normally driven to write a really critical review, after all it's so easy to say "I hated that novel". Well, someone else probably liked it just as much, so where's the value in that?
But I've read plenty of hard Sci-Fi over the years and I really can't remember a drier or more barren Sci-Fi novel than this one.This is my first SB novel, and I picked it up solely on the recommendations for SB by Arthur C. Clarke himself. (sorry Arthur) Hard science can be a wonderful instrument in a novel to hold a reader's attention in the universe being created, but I remember little more from this novel than the internal workings of the Sun. Other reviewers have alluded to the "textbook" quality of this novel, and I have to agree. I skipped the last 100 pages just to end it all, and read the final 20. I've never done that before. To be fair to Stephen Baxter, I do have "The Time Ships" on my shelf ready to read, so I reserve judgement. Seriously though, I never felt real affinity with any of the characters, and the "Sun character" that held so much import in the bulk of the story, was disposed of summarily after the fact. Look elsewhere. Try "The Mote in God's Eye"
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5.0étoiles sur 5
The best book I ever read, Oct. 1 2001
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Ring was a fast-paced, interesting book. The science it covers includes immortality, planetary engineering, time travel, stellar evolution, and much, much more! Its plot is believable and leads the main characters through first the solar system in the 40th century, then a Biosphere-like habitat controlled by religious fundimentalists, then traveling through a dying universe with alien technology, and finally... Throughout the book the story was consistantly good. If you liked this book you might also like Vacuum Diagrams by the same author.
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