A review by grid
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

3.0

3.5 stars. There were a bunch of interesting novels here. Kind of a shame in my opinion that they were all mashed up together, and that so many of them were fragmented and unsatisfying. At its best Robinson's prose is beautifully poetic, but at its worst, it's pretty near unreadable. This novel was probably about 2% of both, I think, with the unreadable stuff mostly segmented into chapters helpfully labeled "lists". Unfortunately, there were some lists chapters that were on the other end of the spectrum too, so you never knew when to skim.

One of the novels was about AI... But while I found it one of the most interesting plots, it was likewise one of the least satisfying. I won't say more because I don't want to spoil anything.