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goobdiddy's review against another edition
2.0
I'm pretty sure I liked some of Greg Bear's other work, although I did read it 20 years ago in high school. This is not one of those works. It's one of his earlier novels, and just wasn't that interesting.
There's a lot of disjointed hopping around from one set of characters to the next, without developing them enough to make me care about them. And this story suffers from a problem that is very common among the early works of so many sci-fi authors that later wrote some cool stuff: the abrupt, lame, ending. Seriously man, don't start writing the book if you don't have a good ending for it.
And don't start reading this one, because you'll just be disappointed! Try some of his later stuff.
There's a lot of disjointed hopping around from one set of characters to the next, without developing them enough to make me care about them. And this story suffers from a problem that is very common among the early works of so many sci-fi authors that later wrote some cool stuff: the abrupt, lame, ending. Seriously man, don't start writing the book if you don't have a good ending for it.
And don't start reading this one, because you'll just be disappointed! Try some of his later stuff.
grid's review against another edition
3.0
I didn't hate this, it was okay, but not amazing. I don't really feel like I understood some of it, and I dislike that feeling. Perhaps a closer reading was necessary, or maybe sloppy writing, not sure which was at fault.
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