Reviews

The Commons by Robert J. Sawyer, Matthew Hughes

silvernfire's review against another edition

3.0

I think Hughes' idea of the noönauts and a collective unconscious that can be visited and mapped is interesting and it was the main reason I checked out this book from the library. I found the characters to be two-dimensional, though, and the dialogue was stilted. After a while I began to wonder: is this just how Hughes writes (this is the only work of his I've read), or was he deliberately creating characters who were only slightly more rounded than the idiomats of the Commons? Anyway, read this if you are intrigued by Hughes' universe, but if you prefer richly-developed characters, you may be disappointed.