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borborygm 's review for:
The Doors of Eden
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A weighty book featuring parallel universes (albeit all Earth centric) in which bleeding between Earths occur. Tchaikovsky interrupts the narrative with descriptions of some of these parallel universes. With everything about to collapse Tchaikovsky subverts time's linearity to give humanity a chance to get it right.
The good:
1. Many ideas floating around in the soup.
2. Some interesting parallel universes.
3. Tchaikovsky does a good job inserting our real world problems into many of the universes.
The bad:
1. Characters are rather weak. By the end I didn't much care about any of them.
2. While the end solution was interesting in that the characters had to realize one of their assumptions was absolutely incorrect, the subversion of time was a poor choice.
3. The prejudice or xenophobia was over the top. (I was so tired of reading "pug-uglies"!)
4. The parallel universe interludes disrupt the narrative.
All in all this is a good work that isn't anywhere close to his Children Of masterpieces and thus was a disappointment.
The good:
1. Many ideas floating around in the soup.
2. Some interesting parallel universes.
3. Tchaikovsky does a good job inserting our real world problems into many of the universes.
The bad:
1. Characters are rather weak. By the end I didn't much care about any of them.
2. While the end solution was interesting in that the characters had to realize one of their assumptions was absolutely incorrect, the subversion of time was a poor choice.
3. The prejudice or xenophobia was over the top. (I was so tired of reading "pug-uglies"!)
4. The parallel universe interludes disrupt the narrative.
All in all this is a good work that isn't anywhere close to his Children Of masterpieces and thus was a disappointment.