![]() ![]() Nothing is ever safe and conditions change rapidly from hospitable to deadly and back. In some respects, the beginning parallels the beginning of the movie Pandorum but they quickly part ways. As a reader you really feel for the confused hero who can't even remember his name, but is thrown into a hellish environment that he's not really prepared for. The fight for survival part is also well executed. ![]() To his credit, everything is also explained and everything fits within the grander scheme. All the science is not just plausible but also very interesting and quite thought-provoking. Nevertheless, as far as I am concerned, he really got the hard sci-fi part right. In fact as I was reading it I thought that it could describe what would happen on a Rama ship if everything went nuts. ![]() I can say I really liked this story by Greg Bear, although - as others have already mentioned - it is not the most original. ![]()
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