Book Diary: Robert Reed
Robert Reed - The Well Of Stars
A sequel to Marrow, reviewed recently. Here the Great Ship (200 times the size of Earth, population around 100 billion) encounters an entity that dwarfs it. This nebula-being believes the creation of the universe was aborted, meaning we have a wrong universe, one that is almost entirely nothingness - and the mysterious secret at the heart of the Great Ship is the key to correcting that. I love the mindblowing scale of Reed's creation, and the complexity of its details. Add in the fact that he can write prose and character of depth and intelligence, and this is high class SF.
A sequel to Marrow, reviewed recently. Here the Great Ship (200 times the size of Earth, population around 100 billion) encounters an entity that dwarfs it. This nebula-being believes the creation of the universe was aborted, meaning we have a wrong universe, one that is almost entirely nothingness - and the mysterious secret at the heart of the Great Ship is the key to correcting that. I love the mindblowing scale of Reed's creation, and the complexity of its details. Add in the fact that he can write prose and character of depth and intelligence, and this is high class SF.