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dementomstie 's review for:
The Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz
This was good but... dense.
It's almost like this is 3 or 4 books all together in one volume.
This became more political than I was expecting. It's clear how it gets there and it's not a complaint, it's just that the book about a space ranger and her flying moose friend becomes a story about copyright and that all people should be treated equally, even if those people are in the bodies of cats or trains.
It's definitely a thought provoking book, but it's also just rather odd. I liked that there's a throughline of the "generations" of this planet and that even though it covers thousands of years some of the same characters at the start are still around near the end.
The audiobook, which is how I read it, is also a bit of a unique experience since there are a lot of robots who will "play triumphant nusic" or "play a fart sound" and those sounds become part of the audiobook playback, which is fine when it's something pleasant, but the alarm sounds were... making it a little hard to focus on the story.
This was good, but it's not quite what I was expecting. Or rather it was, there's a fair amount of Hard Sci-Fi stuff and it's mixed with a lot of character development. Usually you see either one or the other and it was a nice change.
It's almost like this is 3 or 4 books all together in one volume.
This became more political than I was expecting. It's clear how it gets there and it's not a complaint, it's just that the book about a space ranger and her flying moose friend becomes a story about copyright and that all people should be treated equally, even if those people are in the bodies of cats or trains.
It's definitely a thought provoking book, but it's also just rather odd. I liked that there's a throughline of the "generations" of this planet and that even though it covers thousands of years some of the same characters at the start are still around near the end.
The audiobook, which is how I read it, is also a bit of a unique experience since there are a lot of robots who will "play triumphant nusic" or "play a fart sound" and those sounds become part of the audiobook playback, which is fine when it's something pleasant, but the alarm sounds were... making it a little hard to focus on the story.
This was good, but it's not quite what I was expecting. Or rather it was, there's a fair amount of Hard Sci-Fi stuff and it's mixed with a lot of character development. Usually you see either one or the other and it was a nice change.