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Pros: Original concept, exciting space exploration, unique likeable aliens, clever plot twist, satisfying overall story
Cons: This is HARD sci-fi. So hard I had to stop trying to figure out what the author was trying to describe and just tell myself something is happening (for the sake of following the plot), because I don't have to patience to understand what he's getting at. It's like instead of describing that they see the color purple, he would go into the science of the wavelengths of light. Not exactly, but you'll know what I mean. So through most of the book I'm not really sure what the settings looked like (well the Ring World I got, thank goodness) and why something is happening (hyperspace travel +/- planet rotation velocity +/- neuritrons(?) = fuck you), which was pretty shitty.
Cons: This is HARD sci-fi. So hard I had to stop trying to figure out what the author was trying to describe and just tell myself something is happening (for the sake of following the plot), because I don't have to patience to understand what he's getting at. It's like instead of describing that they see the color purple, he would go into the science of the wavelengths of light. Not exactly, but you'll know what I mean. So through most of the book I'm not really sure what the settings looked like (well the Ring World I got, thank goodness) and why something is happening (hyperspace travel +/- planet rotation velocity +/- neuritrons(?) = fuck you), which was pretty shitty.