Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the best writers have names that start with "B"?)
Bryon Daly 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. I read the first two, but haven't got to the third one yet. Right now I'm working through Baxter's new "Destiny's Children" series. Some day I'll come back to "Manifold: Origin," but I agree with your general sentiment. The Manifold series isn't his best work. > Potential spoilers warning! > Potential spoilers warning! > Potential spoilers warning! > Potential spoilers warning! > > > - The whole uplifted squid descending for a single parent colonizing > the asteroid and then the Jupiter ones with billions of population > bugged the heck out of me in too many ways to bother going into. Feh. Yeah, the whole concept was kind of silly. (Wouldn't they need a bigger gene pool of both squid and prey species?) But I *love* that image of the squid endlessly outracing the death of the universe, always just a step away from destruction. > In the second book, though, there's not even that - it's just that no one > except the few main characters cares. The second book is something of a patch job, though, which may explain some of its flaws. It's a collection of Baxter's Saddlepoint Universe stories from (I think) Science Fiction Age magazine, rewritten and retooled to fit the Manifold series of novels. Kevin Street -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.9/39 - Release Date: 7/4/2005 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
