Reviews

Bloom by Wil McCarthy

mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition

3.0

Overreaching. Basically a singularity book set within the solar system. The first half was pretty good and then it lagged. There were some interesting ideas but it just didn't read very well.

stiricide's review against another edition

2.0

Interesting concept but I'm not sure if it's well executed. Much of the book is bogged down in the hard-sf specs of the operation, which ultimately doesn't really carry the story forward, nor does it have as much impact on the story as I think the author thinks it has. The characters never really define themselves and I often had trouble telling each of the crewmembers apart.

But I wanted to read a SF about fungus-as-nanotech, and this certainly fit the prereqs I had in my head.

zzzrevel's review against another edition

1.0

A great premise but I did not like the execution.
Just an okay read.

apostrophen's review

3.0

Fresh idea for a science fiction story - a kind of technological/biological horror overruns the inner system like a plague, and man is stuck outside on the outer planets, where not enough sunlight reaches the organism to keep it alive...

And now a very small group of people try to stop it, with a ship designed to specifically daunt the eats-all-devours-all plague/creature.