Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Manifold: Time
Book Review: BORING!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a short review, so bear with me. This book is VERY boring. I read some of it a year ago, so I have forgotten about it, but what I remember is that it was boring beyond imagining! I had to FORCE myself to read it, because I had paid for the stupid thing out of my own pocket, and it really was horrible...Book Review: Back into (SF) time
Summary: 3 Stars
Baxter's narrative, especially the squid-pilots, is fairly compelling as noted by other reviewers. But Time is too reminiscent of others' stories and images, especially Clarke's (surprised Time won the Clarke award? it's a look-alike contest!) and Blish's, to seem particularly innovative.Book Review: Back into (SF) time
Summary: 3 Stars
Baxter's narrative, especially the squid-pilots, is fairly compelling as noted by other reviewers. But Time is too reminiscent of others' stories and images, especially Clarke's (surprised Time won the Clarke award? it's a look-alike contest!) and Blish's, to seem particularly innovative.Book Review: Best of the three Manifold series
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed this first book of the three Manifold series. If you are a sci-fi fan and like time and quantum interactions, pick this one up.Book Review: Better Than Poking Yourself in the Eye
Summary: 3 Stars
I've read a lot of heavy stuff over the last year. The Gap series, LOTR, and Atlas Shrugged. They weren't all deep, per se, but the were really intense emotionally. I think that contrast helped me to enjoy Manifold Time, by Stephen Baxter.It's a light book. The characters are animated enough. The plot is engaging and carries the grandest scope I've read yet (yes, even bigger than Battlefield Earth.) Overall, it left me with a, "yep, that was a pretty good book" feeling. However, it did not pass the, "will I read the sequel" test.
Baxter is an engineer, and no offense, he writes like one (being an engineer, I can say that.) Clear and to the point, his prose draws out an evironment with the delicate love of a draftsman. Actually, most of the draftsmen I've met were very artistic indeed; strike that remark from the record.
But dangit, he litters the book with cosmological concepts, and I'm just a sucker for that. Obviously a Clarke fan with no less than two blatant references to the master's works, he builds a vast story within the framework of our current body of science. Not only taking us on a pleasant ride, but teaching us a few things along the way.
So the bottom line is, read it, but don't expect it to keep you up all weekend.
On a side-note, my New Year's resolution is to write Amazon reviews for all of the books I buy from Amazon this year. Next up, Lila - An Inquiry into Morals. This is Pirsig's follow up to Zen and the Art of Mortocycle Maintenance. Yeah I know, right back into the deep stuff.