Pushing Ice
by Alastair Reynolds
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Author: Alastair ReynoldsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2006-05
ISBN: 0801847923
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
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Book Review: Silly Humans
Summary: 3 Stars
The start-up to this book was great: seemingly unconnected prologue, tight pacing, good hard SF tech, and then Reynolds inserts a conflict between characters that escalates into improbability. Some of the extremes that the two main female protagonists go to so satisfy their vendetta toward each other often descend into clich?d misogynism. Personally, I expected something a little more refined or, at least, logical thinking from people who obviously must come from a structured and disciplined background need for deep space mining.
In the end, Reynolds channels Clarke's Rama but the one thing that kept nagging at me was that in decades marooned on the alien artifact, the crew of the Rockhopper hadn't explored Janus a little more.
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