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"As just about every review agrees, this starts out as Jules Verne and ends up like the Matrix, which would not be too bad, except whereas Jules Verne wrote some great novels, the Matrix was a great movie, but not a great storyline.
Perhaps here is how it happened: the author has a great idea about an adventure in a replaced Europe. They find the great lost city and most of the party is wiped out. Great, so now the author needs to start explaining what happened to Europe. (At this point I started thinking he would turn it around and explain that it wasn't Europe that disappeared, but the rest of the world.) He goes way further to explain that this is not the Earth, but a historical record of the Earth that has somehow been infiltrated by a virus which destroyed the European bit. So now the author goes back to the original storyline and starts seeding it with chapters that have no relevance to the expedition storyline, but start to give hints to the state of the world.
Too many characters that had little bearing on the plot. The aliens were too confusing - the virus manifests itself as 4 armed aliens. Too much of a disappointment in the ending - I'm still not sure what happened at the end.
In a way, similarities to Blind Lake (this is only my 3rd RCW book), in that there are too many unanswered questions leaving the reader frustrated . Spin OTOH ties everything up nicely in the end. Looking forward to more of Wilson's books.
Addendum:
A question I kept asking myself while reading the book - How well established was the theory of evolution in the United States in 1912? Was Darwin so widely accepted that the new world would have been named after him. The book suggests that there is a lot of superstition and religion dominating the USA at this time, so wouldn't the new continent be more likely named after something from the bible?"
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Darwinia Robert Charles Wilson 9783453196599 Books Reviews
- As just about every review agrees, this starts out as Jules Verne and ends up like the Matrix, which would not be too bad, except whereas Jules Verne wrote some great novels, the Matrix was a great movie, but not a great storyline.
Perhaps here is how it happened the author has a great idea about an adventure in a replaced Europe. They find the great lost city and most of the party is wiped out. Great, so now the author needs to start explaining what happened to Europe. (At this point I started thinking he would turn it around and explain that it wasn't Europe that disappeared, but the rest of the world.) He goes way further to explain that this is not the Earth, but a historical record of the Earth that has somehow been infiltrated by a virus which destroyed the European bit. So now the author goes back to the original storyline and starts seeding it with chapters that have no relevance to the expedition storyline, but start to give hints to the state of the world.
Too many characters that had little bearing on the plot. The aliens were too confusing - the virus manifests itself as 4 armed aliens. Too much of a disappointment in the ending - I'm still not sure what happened at the end.
In a way, similarities to Blind Lake (this is only my 3rd RCW book), in that there are too many unanswered questions leaving the reader frustrated . Spin OTOH ties everything up nicely in the end. Looking forward to more of Wilson's books.
Addendum
A question I kept asking myself while reading the book - How well established was the theory of evolution in the United States in 1912? Was Darwin so widely accepted that the new world would have been named after him. The book suggests that there is a lot of superstition and religion dominating the USA at this time, so wouldn't the new continent be more likely named after something from the bible?
