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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I read it last year. I must admit that it hasn't really stayed with me, but I seem to have enjoyed it at the time. And I think it begins to come back now I've been reminded of it.
Perhaps that it isn't one complete narrative is what disappointed you? From my comments a year ago, I think it's more like a couple of novellas and short stories strung together. |
Well the description of Genesis sounded good, and it was an ok read. Perhaps I was expecting something a little more like the Mars series, but still as a book it was good.
Exodus, well I can understand why he wrote the book in the way he did, and it didn't bother me. Just the whole book seemed nothing really to do with a civilisation travelling through space, and more just a civilisation. I shook my head numerous times at the fact that they started off rather technologically savvy, and after thousands of years civilisation went backwards and seemed to sit at like a medieval time - very simplistic. Take away the sun tube and realistically the story could have been based anywhere in the world and been an alternative historical fiction.