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A review by bkp
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
4.0
This is my first work from Kim Stanley Robinson, and I can say it won't be my last.
2312 is hard-core science fiction, exploring a future that is oddly bleak and euphoric at the same time. The narrative isn't too overburdened with too much tech, but the flavor that this is world very much unlike our own does sometimes get in the way, until the context dawns on you.
I would give this book full five stars, save for Robinson's use of a plot device that includes very disjointed writing in various interludes that for me got annoying enough to just skip said interludes altogether. When it finally occurred to me what these interludes represented, I really didn't feel too heartbroken I'd skipped and skimmed them.
Good science fiction for the futurists among us.
2312 is hard-core science fiction, exploring a future that is oddly bleak and euphoric at the same time. The narrative isn't too overburdened with too much tech, but the flavor that this is world very much unlike our own does sometimes get in the way, until the context dawns on you.
I would give this book full five stars, save for Robinson's use of a plot device that includes very disjointed writing in various interludes that for me got annoying enough to just skip said interludes altogether. When it finally occurred to me what these interludes represented, I really didn't feel too heartbroken I'd skipped and skimmed them.
Good science fiction for the futurists among us.