adam_mcphee 's review for:

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
5.0

What a magnificent book. One of the few I know that's genuinely optimistic without being condescending or pollyanna. Robinson's faith in the human species is remarkable. The fear of utopias is is that they grow boring, but that fear is cast aside because here utopia is always a work in progress.

The idea of the terraria - wildlife sanctuaries inside spaceship asteroids - is the most beautiful science fiction idea I can remember reading about since I was a child.