Reviews - The Gods Themselves

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586 reviews for:

The Gods Themselves

Isaac Asimov

3.88 AVERAGE

jabiczf's review

3.75

adventurous challenging hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

facetiousrunner's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

It is a sandwich. sci fi - alien sex - sci fi

tesa143's review against another edition

2.0

mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

MINIONS, tonight! we streal. ZE MOOOOOOON (stfu that can not br the end wth)

mcguffin's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious reflective medium-paced

mjbsw's review against another edition

5.0

You can’t go wrong with Asimov.

grindeych's review against another edition

3.0

challenging mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

What a weird read... Essentially a trilogy of connected but seperate stories. First an existential story of a man driven by spite to the creator to find a flaw in his new source of infinite energy, then a funky slightly gender-bendy story in a "para-universe" about a thrupple in a universe with totally different physical properties, then a love story wherein the solution to the problem is found.

The last, and longest, story falls the flattest, with a heap of written-by-a-man-syndrome and some eugenics-y stuff going on that I couldn't parse any views on if that was good or bad. The last story is also the least related to the second (and best) part of the book. One of the central pov characters sends a message which the reader read 80 pages ago in part 1, but then nothing is achieved by their communication and its barely referenced. On one hand i like the bleakness of that and its in keeping somewhat with the end of that story, but its also disappointing and means that the concepts built throughout the middle of the book have no relevance to the ending.