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In fact, one can intelligently argue that mankind is still very, very close to destroying itself in a number of frighteningly different ways.

While some of the scenarios may be a bit dated due to the cold war setting, the set-up is very exciting. I might be mistaken of course, but as I have only so much time and an ever growing TBR, I’m glad to cut some corners and be judgemental based on a too small sample rate.If the Soviets believed the Americans were learning secrets that would give them an edge, tensions might escalate out of hand. Un altro pilastro della fantascienza, questo disponibile anche in Italiano (anche se non ancora in ebook). So in Eon you get a big asteroid thing hanging up there in the sky which when they go and investigate they find it's bigger inside than it is outside. stains on pages and the side **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service.

The latter are named after Ralph Nader, who has become identified with empathy and opposition to nuclear war in the centuries since his death. A Soviet attack on the Stone coincides with the Death, which triggers a nuclear winter on Earth and isolates survivors from all factions on the Stone. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality.It’s discovered the asteroid is hollow, and as the investigation into the nature of the stone continues amazing things are discovered. Overall though, if you can overlook a few bad moments, deal with a book set in the future that's now the past (2005) in which the Soviet Union still exists and add a heavy dose of weird math and physics, you're in for a crazy ride. Many of which could have been stripped out of the overall story without losing anything particularly important. It could be from our future or it could be from some other future, the only thing certain is that there's a library that describes the near total destruction the coming war will bring, and the long nuclear winter that will follow it. Funny that the president in the book at the time (2005) was described as a Midwestern liberal with no understanding of science/space.

And Bear really should have stopped to find out what it is actually like being a mathematician, before basing this story around a brilliantly gifted mathematician, then he might have been able to do something a little more convincing than have her lie down and close her eyes when it was time for her to work her magic. The big cataclysmic event that takes place while our POV characters are on the Stone is so coldly rendered that it might as well have not even have happened. But eventually I for one did not really like the amount of this idea that is focused upon in an SF book.Granted the Soviet Union gave up on communism a few years after publication and the idea of it still existing seems to have put a few reviewers off their stride. Time travel, parallel universes, megastructures in space and the continuation of aggressive territorial behavior in space are thematized. Europe had recently become a closer conglomerate and the US was clearly a leader in technology with only Japan echoing and surpassing the US at times. I really liked Moving Mars and also Darwin's Radio and they are among my favorites by him to this day. As time is not an issue, let's not brief her fully ASAP so she can get to work, but let her experience this strange hollow asteroid herself, browse its libraries, appreciate its interior design computer programs.

In particular, the last hundred pages or so was devoid of narrative tension as the story trundled to what seemed it's innevitable conclusion. The pacing is a little slow to begin with but gathers momentum to become quite the pager turner by the second half of the book. It's easy to point a finger at Clarke's Rama or high-level topography math/physics or any number of alternate universe novels or time-travel tomes, but it's something else entirely to pull all of these rabbits out of a single hat. You do have to concentrate; it’s rather like watching a particularly Moffat-esque episode of the modern Doctor Who.If so, I remember starting it and being taken through a room-by-room tour that was lots and lots of Tell and very Little Show…and it just seemed to go on and on and on to no discernable purpose. When this is done, two more Hexamon habitats join the Stone in Earth orbit, at the time just after the Death. Obviously this is hard SF and a certain amount of scientific rigour is to be expected, but here it is taken to the nth degree.