>Bryon wrote- >I just recently read Stephen Baxter's first two Manifold books >(Manifold: Time and Manifold:Space). I'm wondering if anyone here >read them and what they thought of them. > >For me, overall I was rather disappointed - enough so that I probably >won't bother with Manifold: Origin. Fortunately, I can do that >without missing "how it ends", because these books seem to be >alternate universe stories where some of the characters stay the same, >but (very) different & unrelated things happen. The book cover >descriptions don't make that clear at all. > >I found the science and many of the ideas pretty compelling at times, >particularly in the first book (Manifold: Time), making it hard to put >down at points. But the first ending fell flat for me, and by the >middle of the second book I was starting to get annoyed (and its >ending also fell flat, IMHO).
I finished the first one and generally liked it enough I bought the next two. It felt a bit like I was "slogging" through the second one with the old "it will get better mantra"..... then I left it on a plane (freudian?) when I was about half way done. I may ask the library to locate a copy to finish it sometime when I can read a pleasure book but no burning rush at this point. Dee _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
