Andre

Good escapist story, literally and figuratively

Revisado: 11-02-23

Fun variant on the "Beam me up Scotty, this planet stinks" theme. Main characters are interesting and rather well developed. The way people interact in this story is sufficiently realistic imho, although somewhat caricatural at times. The voice actor is Good.
I don't particularly subscribe to current US progressive white liberal beliefs and attitudes but these are well portrayed in the story, which is perfectly OK taking into account that most of the characters are from that background. However, while it is perfectly OK for people in a story not to be be politically neutral, it's less OK to have the world (in this case the alternate timelines) also not be politically neutral. Unfortunately in this story, all the alternate Earths where humans are (or were) involved fall into specific bingo card boxes of current white liberal Americans' preoccupations: Nazi USA, GreenHouse Earth and Natives USA. Could have been much worse however and I thank the author for not including 'Slavery USA', and 'Utopia DEI commie USA'.

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Good ideas but...

Revisado: 09-24-22

Good ideas, but filled with high-school level girl-perspective interpersonal drama, from the pervy protagonist, the female rival who is taken out in a highly public verbal showdown, the victimhood from colleagues who then profusely apologize, etc. Not my bag of tea. The narrator is merely reading the text, with minimal attempts at changing the voice for different characters.

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Illuminating and entertaining.

Revisado: 01-28-20

Society being downstream from biology, it makes total sense to consider the constraints of our evolutionary (pre)history on our behaviors, either as individuals or as groups.

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Disappointed

Revisado: 08-29-19

Spoiler: in some science fiction setting, all women are throwing themselves at the 'most interesting man in the world.' Was expecting more from Niven

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Very good except the cheezy bits

Revisado: 07-13-19

Excellent overall. The end was somewhat predictible, but the storytelling was pretty good nevertheless. The grand science fiction background idea is breathtaking. What got on my nerves is the main 'human interest' (woman preacher with homosexual & interracial relationship), which was over the top cheezy, as if the author wanted to check all the PC boxes at the same time, and especially the names of the people involed (Anna, Nono & Namey - OMG the softness of the Ns).

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Informative

Revisado: 10-16-16

Nice tour of the topic which, for me, is an update. I understand that biological anthropology, as a course given to university students, can benefit from being articulated with the specific cultural climate of our time and place(s), but I was a bit annoyed by the space taken up by the Professor's own ideological posturing. This was most prominent in chapters 14&15 (gender issues) and in chapter 19 (racial issues). That being said, Prof. King did manage to contain the damage; while these topics were not treated with all the objectivity one would expect from a scientist, it could have been much worse.

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