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grayjay 's review for:
The Fountains of Paradise
by Arthur C. Clarke
An engineer, credited with designing a successful Gibraltar Bridge, wants to build a space elevator. The entire plot explores his plans to build it, and all the obstacles surrounding building it, from geopolitics, to economics, to land rights, to engineering, to public opinion.
This style of sci-fi, where the author explores a technical idea, I find pretty boring. It doesn't help that there is no character development. I much prefer sci-fi novels that have interesting ideas at their core rather than interesting technology.
There were a few interesting ideas thrown in about religion, in a completely unconnected plot line that felt like a totally different story spliced in the main narrative at intervals.
This style of sci-fi, where the author explores a technical idea, I find pretty boring. It doesn't help that there is no character development. I much prefer sci-fi novels that have interesting ideas at their core rather than interesting technology.
There were a few interesting ideas thrown in about religion, in a completely unconnected plot line that felt like a totally different story spliced in the main narrative at intervals.