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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: Origin by Stephen Baxter. The third in his Manifold series of alternate worlds.
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Fascinating ideas, but not engaging. I had no real interest in any of the characters. Which probably explains why I was so slow to finish it.
(The contrast to the previous book, also the third in a trilogy, is stark. There were pretty much no new ideas in that third book (above those introduced in the first two volumes and the previous trilogy), but the story and characters were engaging, if sometimes irritating, and so nI finished a book twice as long in half the time.)
I was also was unconvinced by the non-homo-sapiens characters in
Origins. Giving them different motivations/instincts/perceptions was a good idea, but I didn't think it was really done well enough.
Next up:
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters. The third in her Amelia Peabody mysteries that I bought earlier this year.