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A review by tasadion
Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
2.0
Complicated book to review, had a few stages I went through with this one:
Early on, indeed for the first half of the book I was pretty bored, trying to be interested in the lunar parts of the story, but only marginally interested, the parts on the earth seemed ok, but parts did not seem futuristic at all, current events has caught up to this novel a little.
Later the story become a little more interesting, and some characters came some into play, but the plot was still struggling to really emerge.
Then in the final 50 pages everything really started to happen and the book began to go faster and faster, and... there was no real resolution at all. Pffah.
The story reminded me of William Gibson at his more unengaging, where the plot seemed aimless, and without Gibson's obsessive descriptive and sparse prose.
So some interesting observations here and there, particularly around Chinese culture and politics, but took too long to get moving and didn't even try to come to a conclusion.
Early on, indeed for the first half of the book I was pretty bored, trying to be interested in the lunar parts of the story, but only marginally interested, the parts on the earth seemed ok, but parts did not seem futuristic at all, current events has caught up to this novel a little.
Later the story become a little more interesting, and some characters came some into play, but the plot was still struggling to really emerge.
Then in the final 50 pages everything really started to happen and the book began to go faster and faster, and... there was no real resolution at all. Pffah.
The story reminded me of William Gibson at his more unengaging, where the plot seemed aimless, and without Gibson's obsessive descriptive and sparse prose.
So some interesting observations here and there, particularly around Chinese culture and politics, but took too long to get moving and didn't even try to come to a conclusion.