I only made it halfway through and was just so bored I had to stop. What seems to be the main plot seems kind of interesting. But there is SO MUCH filler information that just bogs it down. I just couldn’t stick with it and didn’t care about the characters enough to find out what..
The use of so many readers worked quite well overall. I was a bit off-put by the inability of some readers to pronounce Swiss place-names — a reader who’s narrating the actions of a character who lives in Zurich should be able to handle “Strasse” and “Kirche” and the like. The growling reader with the..
From a beginning in the worst possible killer heat wave to beautifully described Alpine scenes. and a tour of the planet from an airship, this is an interesting, well written tour of a possible environmental future.
Review from Checkmate Charlie →
The Charlie and Daisy series were totally fire. Fun and enjoyable start to finish. Never a full moment and many characters and story lines you get attached to. Another victory for Scott Baron.
Review from The Ministry for the Future →
I had heard lots of great recommendations in climate circles and as a marine scientist and hard sci-fi lover I thought this would be my kind of book…And yet this book tries to do way too much and ends up not doing much of anything well. As a novel it’s boring, as climate science it’s..
This could be one of the most important books written in recent years, but listening to this version of it is painful. The characters – all serious people – sound cartoonish, and I’ve literally never heard so many words mispronounced in a single audiobook. Literally. Never. A case study in the importance of quality control.
It’s really impossible to sum this up, so I’ll just toss out a few points: 1. The narration ranges from pretty good to among the worst I’ve ever heard. 2. The opening is extremely bleak, but once it opens up and gets going, it’s an interesting mix of hopelessness and hopefulness. 3. There is a..
Review from The Ministry for the Future →
I did not have any idea the subject was climate change, I just liked his other stuff so I started listening.The overall story was wonderfully developed and explained. The way the story is told through different characters and science was very well done. I’m no literary critic so character development etc is not my thing…
Review from Dragon King Charlie →
The story might be a little more interesting if the narrator did some inflection. The best part is the last 1/4 of the book, the rest is really slow.
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of my favorite science fiction writers and this book is a perfect example of the genre. True science fiction takes the science of today and imagines continuing and changed into the future based on whatever story the writer chooses to use as a lens; this story was ‘climate change’ and..