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3.37 AVERAGE
3.37 AVERAGE
kienn_reads's review against another edition
slow-paced
2.0
written by a prof emeritus at my uni. physics was fun, but a white male author writing a black woman physicist... it wasnt well researched enough in that respect and a bit out of touch due to this pervading color blind attitude. and some yikes comments about race and gender. but the nods to uci geography were fun i guess
vang_glorious's review against another edition
4.0
Sometimes the characters is there only to move the plot or give an opportunity to clear up the science, but the main character is pretty well developed. She's got some interest outside her lab. The idea is interesting and the hard science is pretty good.
tservais's review against another edition
3.0
Very compelling, I guess because I was interested to see what he would do with the Cosm as it developed. Characters are fairly believable, and the central science makes good fiction.
One niggle, from page 253: "The car took off with a surge, but no roar and squealing of brakes." Huh? How does anyone interested in how the world works not understand the basics of cars? This is especially puzzling given what he wrote on page 257: "... the car burned rubber getting away." So it would seem he knows that tires experience a lot of friction under hard acceleration, yet .... And why didn't anyone else catch that along the way? There are very few typos, so it seems likely someone else edited the novel.
One niggle, from page 253: "The car took off with a surge, but no roar and squealing of brakes." Huh? How does anyone interested in how the world works not understand the basics of cars? This is especially puzzling given what he wrote on page 257: "... the car burned rubber getting away." So it would seem he knows that tires experience a lot of friction under hard acceleration, yet .... And why didn't anyone else catch that along the way? There are very few typos, so it seems likely someone else edited the novel.
quinn_cvy's review against another edition
I don’t mind a slow paced book, but this one just seemed too scattered and boring. Scattered because the story included the physics work but also seemingly unrelated dating scenes. The characters seemed unbelievable and stereotypical, clearly the author has no experience with their perspectives (white man telling the story as a black woman). I can get down with technical sci-fi, tell me all about the physics, but I couldn’t care about the sphere at all.
maddiebo97's review against another edition
2.0
I had high hopes for this book, but was disappointed. It did get more interesting as I got farther into it, but the beginning was dry. The plot seemed intriguing, but half of the time I was questioning why this white male author was writing from a black woman's point of view (which came off as over-the-top stereotypical). The physics was what kept me reading, but even that at times got to be too much.
remocpi's review against another edition
3.0
Novela de física escrita por un físico, y con todos los parabienes de dos grandes físicos (Dyson y Wheeler) en la portada. Y, aún así, no me ha enamorado. La protagonista es una física que crea un universo paralelo en un experimento con iones pesados en un acelerador de partículas. A partir de ese momento, su máxima preocupación será dedicar todo el tiempo posible a su estudio, mientras que la facultad, el laboratorio, la policía y la opinión pública actúan, opinan y enmerdan en general. Está muy bien descrito el ambiente académico y también el periodismo populista. Pero el libro como tal me resultó poco logrado. Falla la descripción de los personajes, que no resultan cercanos ni creíbles, y falla la velocidad de la acción, que en momentos se hace bastante lenta (la acción y la velocidad). No me llama, excepto la disquisición de la protagonista acerca de los alumnos que pretenden ser juzgados por su potencial y no por su rendimiento, que esa estuvo muy bien.
davidr's review against another edition
4.0
This is a fun science fiction novel; my favorite type--something of a detective story. A new object suddenly just "shows up" in a particle accelerator, and much of the story is taken up in trying to figure out exactly what it is. Lots of laboratory and academic politics are stirred in, for good measure. While the main character always seems to do the wrong thing, it turns out, retrospectively, to have been exactly the "right thing" to do. As the author is a physicist, the explanations come across as quite believable (though improbable). The insights into a physicist's personality are very believable, and help the story immensely.
manuti's review against another edition
4.0
Otra reseña más rescatada del pasado entre los libros de 2004-2005.
Al igual que el anterior libro, estamos hablando de l futuro de pasado mañana (nada del año 5000, ni de extraterrestres o cosas así). De un fallo o experimento con resultados sorprendentes en un acelerador de partículas (uhm, esto podría acabar sirviendo como premonición al LHC).
Lo mejor del libro es la trama miserable de los tejemanejes de la universidad, de los becarios de laboratorio, los presupuestos para experimentos y en general de las grandezas y miserias de la investigación científica. Un libro con 4 estrellas y que debería leer todo becario de físicas que se precie de serlo.
* Reseña de Cosmo en Archivo de Nessus
* Reseña de Cosmo en ciencia-ficcion.com
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remocpi's review against another edition
3.0
Novela de física escrita por un físico, y con todos los parabienes de dos grandes físicos (Dyson y Wheeler) en la portada. Y, aún así, no me ha enamorado. La protagonista es una física que crea un universo paralelo en un experimento con iones pesados en un acelerador de partículas. A partir de ese momento, su máxima preocupación será dedicar todo el tiempo posible a su estudio, mientras que la facultad, el laboratorio, la policía y la opinión pública actúan, opinan y enmerdan en general. Está muy bien descrito el ambiente académico y también el periodismo populista. Pero el libro como tal me resultó poco logrado. Falla la descripción de los personajes, que no resultan cercanos ni creíbles, y falla la velocidad de la acción, que en momentos se hace bastante lenta (la acción y la velocidad). No me llama, excepto la disquisición de la protagonista acerca de los alumnos que pretenden ser juzgados por su potencial y no por su rendimiento, que esa estuvo muy bien.