" Something of a cross between the Heinlein Lazarus books and Atlas Shrugged. " Tried to read this once before and couldn't get into it. " Book selection for the Hard SciFi group (aka the Yahoo hardsf group) for the month of October, 2009. " Great concept, but pretty misleading title " - Andres, The changes that it causes, and the resulting plot, are well thoughtout. In a time when most science fictiontries to build a complete world, the consintration on this one what-if is refreshing. This is classic science fiction in that it takes one what-if(what if some people no longer had to sleep?) and runs with it, fleshing out all of the many implications of that change. While this particular title wasn't, in my opinion, one of the best of all time, it was worthwhile.The characters are believable and well done, and they grow and change throughout the book. As with most lists of that sort, most of the novelsthat made it were so litterary as to be unreadable.
" I originally came across this title on an online list of the top 200 science fiction novels of all time. And this was okay, but I had to read the description to remember what it was about.
Nancy Kress is another one of the those gender-issue authors I usually enjoy. A tempting concept and a beautiful (yet rational) conclusion to the greatest dilemma we can found in our current societies. It's not painful, but it feels like a waste of time. " This is a series? Gad, I barely made it through the first one, and I could not care less what happens in the future of this alternate.future. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.
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