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Gregory Benford

Why we're reading this: Nebula Award Winner 1980
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May 11, 2022 Kivrin rated it did not like it

Shelves: didn-t-finish

I could not get into this one. Gave it 100 pages, but the characters weren't developed (and I didn't like any of them). This one is HARD on the science (physics), and I just felt like I was trying to wade through it instead of enjoying it. ...more

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May 25, 2010 Trice rated it it was ok

Shelves: scifi-fantasy

This book wasn't exactly bad. I just remember getting very bored with all the life details presented here. I have a vague intention to go back to it some day and finish it, partly just to say I did and partly to give it a fair chance. My experience of it is now connected in my head with my experience of Zodiac by Neal Stephenson, so maybe it's the scientists/science fiction writers writing environmental thrillers that I'm not liking so much. I just hate their main characters really - is it an at ...more

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May 25, 2009 Mark rated it really liked it

Greg Benford is probably right up there with Clarke as one of the best 'hard' SF writers of all time; he is a Physics professor at UC Irvine so his novels seem to have a greater plausibility and realism to them than other
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