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A review by sevenlefts
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
3.0
I've read one other Robinson book, The Years of Rice and Salt, some years ago. I don't remember whole lot about it, but I remember liking it. I liked this book, too, but it felt a little disjointed at times.
It brings together a lot of cool concepts about what life in our solar system could be like 300 years from now -- longevity science, gender choice, terraforming, living inside asteroids, new political systems -- but there was so much going on that I found myself absorbed by these themes and not caring as much about the overall mystery that the book was trying to solve. I wasn't satisfied by the solution -- maybe I wasn't supposed to be?
This books is ripe for a sequel. If there is one, I'm sure I'll read it.
It brings together a lot of cool concepts about what life in our solar system could be like 300 years from now -- longevity science, gender choice, terraforming, living inside asteroids, new political systems -- but there was so much going on that I found myself absorbed by these themes and not caring as much about the overall mystery that the book was trying to solve. I wasn't satisfied by the solution -- maybe I wasn't supposed to be?
This books is ripe for a sequel. If there is one, I'm sure I'll read it.