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A review by erebus53
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Did not finish book. Stopped at 57%.
As a fan of authors like Neal Stephenson who are heavy on the info-dumps and science, this book let me down in so many ways. The infodumps were BAD. The science was sub-par. The explorations of humanity were philosophical but heartless. The deliberately edgy transhumanism came across as garbage. Genetical, genital and other body modifications seemed tacked on rather than being incorporated into a rich world-building experience.
There were SO many cultural references to things that would have been in Earth's deep past for these people, and the references would go over most people's heads entirely. Some were from Classics, some from fiction, and others from the musical works of Beethoven...
This is the second book I have have read in a year that involved terraforming in space, and this one is also dull. With so much interesting material there should be no excuse for the delivery being so dull that it literally put me to sleep more than once.
There were SO many cultural references to things that would have been in Earth's deep past for these people, and the references would go over most people's heads entirely. Some were from Classics, some from fiction, and others from the musical works of Beethoven...
This is the second book I have have read in a year that involved terraforming in space, and this one is also dull. With so much interesting material there should be no excuse for the delivery being so dull that it literally put me to sleep more than once.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
Minor: Dysphoria