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Too much of a fantasy tale for me

Revisado: 04-17-24

The story seems more farfetched today than when it was written given the Russian military’s performance and resourses in their war of Ukraine.
Also, the story line has two +1,000 mile sequential journeys of armored units without transports. Can tracked vehicles be taken on a +1,000-mile road / off road journey? and arrive ready to fight?

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Fair and Balanced

Revisado: 02-04-23

The audiobook was very entertaining as well as very informative. When the book delved into topics which I felt I have subject matter knowledge I found nothing that I could even quibble about.

Finally, I only give a 5 star rating about 10% of the book I listen to and didn’t expect to give a five star rating to this book. Before I started, I thought this would be a “preaching to the choir” book. I was wrong.

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space ships as a collection of super heros

Revisado: 08-23-22

"digitized minds of former humans" in space war ships each with its own "super power" weapon

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originally published in 1979

Revisado: 04-05-22

the book is set in the near future from a 1979 perspective and has our world descending into an ice age. glad we avoided that fate ;-)

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What will the next apocalypse look like?

Revisado: 01-13-22

How about asking a wilderness survival instructor who is also an anthropologist and archaeologist? After listening to the audiobook I bought a hard copy. Perhaps a better format for a survival book

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Not very original

Revisado: 04-15-19

I kept hoping for an interesting story but it kept slipping back into a Hunger Games rerun with a hero who is quite lame. The two decent female characters take backseats as (unwanted) inspiration and help. Ending was disappointing. Hopefully this is not a series!

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Delightful

Revisado: 02-13-19

Humorous and nice twists through to the end. A hug of a story and who can resist an Irish accent?!

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Highly Entertaining

Revisado: 12-08-18

Worth the hours after embracing the characters from the first book. Great for long car trips, gardening, cooking, even sewing a binding on a large quilt. A fun intro sci-fi that would be entertaining for families, too. Will save to revisit in the future!

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A different perspective of human ancestry

Revisado: 09-15-18

I was looking for a different perspective of human ancestry and I found it. However, I was also looking for up to date information. While this book was published in 2018 the book is a collection of essays that were previously published.

The book also supports a multi-regionalist model for modern humans, but without any attempt to fit this theory with recent genomic data. In the book the authors appeared to be less comfortable with genomic data, but this could just reflect their paleoanthropologist perspective.

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The main character lacked believability.

Revisado: 09-15-18

The main character is a computational biologist, and a lot of “science” details were part of the story. This is a thriller and I wasn’t looking for scientific accuracy, and I didn’t find it. But I did expect that the author would get the processes and descriptions of the biology, computational biology and DNA technology right.

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