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A review by wole_talabi
Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter
4.0
I really enjoyed all of the interesting extrapolation of scientific concepts in this book, and there are a lot of them. Everything from the Fermi Paradox, Probabilistic doomsday, Orbital mechanics, Quantum theory, The Big Crunch, Big Bang, Big Chill, Wave descriptions of time, alternate universes and physical laws, Genetic engineering and more. So many fascinating ideas all woven into this story. Most of all, I enjoyed the big idea at the heart of the story. That humanity could improve upon the generation of universes from gravity anomalies by using remnants of the past universe as new anomalies in a new universe at the end of artificial vacuum decay.
In terms of characters and plot, it left something to be desired (and several plot points were never really resolved and so characterization is thin) but the breakneck speed and sheer fun and magnitude of all that happens kept me engaged even when there were long stretches of infodump.
In terms of characters and plot, it left something to be desired (and several plot points were never really resolved and so characterization is thin) but the breakneck speed and sheer fun and magnitude of all that happens kept me engaged even when there were long stretches of infodump.