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Bowl Of Heaven (2012)

by Gregory Benford(Favorite Author)

3.2 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0765328410 (ISBN13: 9780765328410)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Tor Books

series

Bowl of Heaven

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 even at a cliffhanger, it just ends abruptly in the middle of the action, with none of the major plot threads resolved. There's a sequel, but I doubt I'll take the time to check it out.
review 2: This is a good hard science book. I am not that type, so just tend to skim the physics rationale and follow the plotline, which in itself is interesting. It starts off slowly, with a crew flying to a new planet far away...trouble ensues and the main character Cliff gets awakenened early from colds... moreleep. Turns out that their path is thrown off by a giant planetoid-like sphere. They decide to stop their for supplies and (SPOILER ALERT) meet up with an alien race. I had trouble getting into the alien race. I guess that is because they are, um, alien. But it's hard to find much sympathy for them. In a way it's not very believeable that they have so much power, yet cannot seem to catch these stupid primates running around their giant sphere. But the plot holds, the characters are interesting (with the exception of the aliens), and I am curious enough to read the sequel. less

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