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An interesting world, carefully constructed. But...

Revisado: 02-25-25

Three times I put this book down, not intending to finish it, feeling bored by unnecessary episodes that didn't add much: repetitive reaffirming who a character is, without adding anything new or interesting. Similar onflicts among the protagonists happened over and over, often without either character learning anything new from the current episode, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ me neither. Still, there was a lot to like, and I'll probably come back for the next book

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They made AI real. And made AI's future pretty clear and plausibly optimistic

Revisado: 02-05-25

I like how they compare AI's impact to the Interstate Highway project and on Great Britain's response to the Luddites. Cautious optimism.

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What's happened to you, Mr Scalzi? I've enjoyed every one of your books up to now, I liked this one the least.

Revisado: 09-30-24

The world that you developed was far-fetched and uncomfortable. Not one of the characters was someone to like or respect. The characters' evolutions had no clear trajectory, and all the players were one-dimensional. The plot twists were so random that I suspect you were desperate to contrive something to keep interesting. My guess is that this was the start of some longer book. If so, I can see why you got bored with it, and punched out. What I don't see is, why did you foist this on your loyal listeners?

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Good story, Dark: humans & 100's of races, subjugated.

Revisado: 08-16-24

I like the character development, though I had a hard time tracking all the names. I like the surprises: I guessed 100% wrong every time, and it always seems more plausible than my guess. I'll totally get the rest of the volumes as they come out. These authors are space-opera-composers, and I'm in line for that unobstructed balcony seat

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Odd foursome save a world in the Multiverse of other Earths,

Revisado: 05-14-24

The characters are Ty, a scientist from CERN, his childhood girlfriend, a benevolent Marine killer, junkie singer., This book, which I read in May 2024 is mostly upbeat and moves fast. They also set expectations for a series.

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very short and snappy

Revisado: 02-21-24

I guess it's OK that nothing makes sense, but nothing does, and doubling the length would fix it

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Appalachia is setting for sci Fi

Revisado: 02-10-24

This book is choc-a-block work violence, as the protag, former marine and current security guard for a company doing insane stuff like time travel, resulting in multiple versions of some of the characters, and other weird stuff. all in aid of saving the company's founder's wife from cancer. Strange. But the action is good. Don't know that I'll read it again, but not bag

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Boring book. I loved all the prior, now i may skip the rest

Revisado: 12-22-23

Predictable, boring plot. I got through chapter 9 and quit. Fifteen words minimum? Disgusting bugs and boring book

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drags, then doesn't (spoiler alert)

Revisado: 11-09-23

First, R. C. Bray was - for me - typecast as Joe Bishop in the Expeditionary Force series. THat's another first-person book, with similar enough writing style that took me several hours to be able to hold on to William, not Joe.

The premises of what goes wrong in the mission, and, how Will acquires infinite re-spawning, are pretty hard to believe. but Robinson does a good enough job to keep it intermittently exciting enough, by throwing another far-fetched curve ball, about the time I'm ready to give up. I doubt I'll either read it again or buy more from the 13(!) books so far in the series.

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awful format, boring dialog & melodrama acting

Revisado: 10-29-23

I was excited when I saw this book. What a disappointment!

The "cast" is totally over-acting. The book takes forever to get anywhere. Many of the actors whined their lines. I went ahead a few chapters and the ridiculous format apparently continues. Ick. I hope I'm not too late to return it

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