Books by Gregory Benford
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review 1: An interesting hard sci-fi idea, but an extremely lackluster execution. The human characters were all interchangeable cardboard, and the plot consists almost entirely of them wandering through the alien habitat with no clear goal or plan. Worse was the way the book ends - not eve...
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review 1: What happens when two masters of Science Fiction collaborate on an entirely new novel of mankind’s future among the stars?You get something so bad that it’s worth sitting up and paying attention.Honestly, this book is definitively, and I’m being serious here, the most poorly craf...
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review 1: My primary and perhaps slightly masochistic pleasure when reading these types of science fiction novels is the immense sense of awe inspired by the alien artifacts/technologies; so much the better if they remain enigma and incomprehensible to the very end, despite the best effor...
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review 1: Interesting and fun (at times), but not a book many will want to read cover to cover. This book contains pictures and predictions on the future that appeared from 1903 to 1969 in Popular Mechanics magazine. The bulk of the predictions proved false, and are fairly ridiculous. W...
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review 1: Então e os rocket packs, quando é que os temos? Nesta era dominada pela ciência e tecnologia cada nova descoberta gera inúmeras hipóteses de aplicação. Aquilo que hoje está na crista da onda será amanhã tecnologia esquecida ou predição desesperadamente desactualizada pela passage...