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Old 05-15-2011, 11:52 AM   #9394
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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.
I still haven't finished up the Mars series. I found it a little too hard (& improbable) for my tastes.

I think that the isolation from the ship element of things is part of the story. I think his implicit argument is that generation ships must be protected from their passengers as much as from any external threat.

And that I like historical stories probably helped my opinion of it.
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