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Somewhere in this 640 page book is a great 300 page novel trying to get out! Distracting "lists" and "extracts" (sort of a "But I digress..."insert) periodically interrupts the flow of the story. Probably worth 4 stars for the creativity - flying over the ocean and seeing the large brown blob below that used to be Florida and New York city is now the new Venice with water to the 4th floor of the buildings and planets are "terraformed" to permit humans to live on them. Interesting description of "reanimation" as animals raised elsewhere in the solar system are released from the sky into their old habitats, transportation issues are described, political and computer issues are dealt with, etc. Economics seem to be ignored except for the big picture like extracting nitrogen from the Saturn system. If it is worth 4 stars for creativity, the writing gets 3 stars as it gets plodding in places. Still, a thought provoking read.


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2312 Kim Stanley Robinson 9780316098120 Books Reviews

Many of the reviews here are pretty spot on

1) Gorgeous world building....

The description of the world's, their cultures, their creation are all gorgeous and a real spark for the imagination. I can see these places in my mind's eye, and would love to travel to them.

2)...but terrible characters

I'm 150+ pages in, and I could give a rip about any of the characters. Swan comes across as psychotic, fickle, and aimless. Her companions are uninteresting; bland and without internal motivation. I honestly am hoping someone falls in a volcano on Io at this point just to spice things up.

3) Needed Editing

I love a good existential thought piece moment in sci-fi (God Emperor of Dune, anyone?) But this is just painful. Why do we have to take a half dozen pages to describe a concert? A chapter on lawn bowling? The 'lists' sections are hit or miss some fill in context for the world building, but most are just headache inducing lists of mental illnesses, biomes, existential...stuff.

I appreciate the trick of not describing a character in detail, but it wasn't until 100+ pages in was the main character described, which was jarring to what I'd constructed in my mind. Swan came across as a petulant 20 year old, so I was shocked when I learned she was 134..

And the vocabulary. Dear God, it's almost purple prose. I consider myself a smart reader, but I had to give up on Googling some of the words. And if I read "goldsworthies" or "balkanization" one more time...

4) Plot? Conflict? *Jingles keys*

The plot is completely lost, if there even is one. It's completely unclear if there's any conflict or dilemma to solve, and if it is, the characters seem wholly unconcerned with solving it. Swan seems content to have feral mental episodes each time her companions say the equivalent of "if I told you, I'd have to kill you." We take a time out to smuggle out a street rat/would-be-kidnapper, apparently on a lark before resuming an aimless trip around the Solar System...and the whole time I'm wondering if I accidentally picked up the second book in a trilogy because I'm lost and starting to hate the characters and at this point just reading it for the space descriptions.

*Sigh* I think this is a 'leave this in the airport terminal and see if someone else likes it' read...
I am reading the nebula award winning novels in chronological order. This is the winner for 2013.

Initially I didn't realize that I had already read this book. When I remembered, I thought it would be worth a second read. Now I'm not so sure. I did finish reading it the second time, but I kind of wish I hadn't.

The story takes place in the year 2312 when humanity is busily populating the solar system while Earth itself sinks ever further into the swamp of pollution and overpopulation that we are experiencing today. There are three or four main characters, depending on how you look at it. Actually, you could say there are 0 main characters because the author seems to feel character development is overrated.

What's good.
The book is heavy on science and technologies that can be used in various ways to allow humans to freely and expediently travel the solar system. Some of these are quite innovative, or seemed so to me. Okay, that's pretty much it on the good side, but that is actually quite a lot. Enough to make it worth reading once, but not twice.

The rest.
As I already mentioned, character development is not the author's strong point. The dialog is especially terrible. There is no way any of it sounds like real people. And all of the characters sound identical. And the narrator, too, not surprisingly. One really annoying aspect of this--and it could just be me--is the use of the word "so." It starts many, many sentences and sometimes weasels itself in mid-sentence as if discontent at being always in the lead. Of course, the narrator's voice would not want to miss out on this delightful little word.

Why do humans have to spend one in every seven years back on Earth itself? No simulation will do, it's got to be Earth. The author says that no one knows why this is, but that falls flat to me.

A big deal is made of how oppressive 1 G is to "spacers." They have to wear a body brace to deal with it during their Earth sabbaticals. But their interplanetary travel takes place on terraria that are maintained at 1 G and this doesn't seem to bother anyone.

In this future, human sexuality has broadened to the point of ridiculousness. It seems that heterosexuality doesn't even exist anymore. Most people seem to have both sets of functional reproductive organs. That's a bit hard to believe. Can human anatomy be redesigned to accommodate this physiology. I think the author is trying to present a more sexually open world but he should probably look into his biological facts as closely as he does his physical ones.

There's also a really major flaw concerning ecology that I don't want to discuss due to spoilers.

I would recommend this book if you're interested in technology but not if you're interested in characters or social issues.
Somewhere in this 640 page book is a great 300 page novel trying to get out! Distracting "lists" and "extracts" (sort of a "But I digress..."insert) periodically interrupts the flow of the story. Probably worth 4 stars for the creativity - flying over the ocean and seeing the large brown blob below that used to be Florida and New York city is now the new Venice with water to the 4th floor of the buildings and planets are "terraformed" to permit humans to live on them. Interesting description of "reanimation" as animals raised elsewhere in the solar system are released from the sky into their old habitats, transportation issues are described, political and computer issues are dealt with, etc. Economics seem to be ignored except for the big picture like extracting nitrogen from the Saturn system. If it is worth 4 stars for creativity, the writing gets 3 stars as it gets plodding in places. Still, a thought provoking read.