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Aug 06, 2019ChrisMcMil rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
While I am generally a big fan of Sawyer’s work, it pains me to say that I found this book quite disappointing. While I have a soft spot for both paleontology and astronomy, both of which pervade this story, that was not enough to make up for the fact that there seemed to otherwise be no attempt to make the plot credible. The character development was weak. The plot line was simplistic and again seriously lacking credibility. The attempt to explore the philosophical question of the existence of a “god” while central to this book, was very unsatisfactorily treated: as a scientist (with some background in cosmology) I would say that it was insulting. Not his best effort. I’m shocked that this was nominated for a Hugo award. I have found his more recent work to be far superior, and I especially enjoyed his trilogies. I also greatly enjoyed several of his earlier works.