February Books 11) Forty Signs of Rain
11) Forty Signs of Rain, by Kim Stanley Robinson
C'mon folks. This is not the science fiction book of the year. I don't particularly mind when authors (especially when, like Robinson, they are authors with whom I basically agree) try to integrate their personal political messages into sf books as long as they also remember to include the ( Read more... )
C'mon folks. This is not the science fiction book of the year. I don't particularly mind when authors (especially when, like Robinson, they are authors with whom I basically agree) try to integrate their personal political messages into sf books as long as they also remember to include the ( Read more... )
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Well, no. River of Gods is. :)
I still really like Forty Signs, though. A large part of why is precisely that it's about process, not event. So, yeah, it's all about the buildup to the tipping point, the moment of change--and as the environment reaches that point, there's also the start of a Kuhnian paradigm shift, and Frank has his own personal epiphany. I liked the way all that was interwoven and contrasted.
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Agreed!
And, returning to Forty Signs of Rain, Frank is particularly well drawn. But, well, apart from the end of the world as we know it, nothing much happened!
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