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I can't get through Baxter's writing either. Well, I did manage one book and his ideas are grand, such that one keeps thinking about it for a while after readi

I can't get through Baxter's writing either. Well, I did manage one book and his ideas are grand, such that one keeps thinking about it for a while after reading his stuff. But I don't know what it is about his writing. It just isn't very gripping. This opposed to f.e. Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward. Similar hard scifi, but much more fun to read.

tablespoon 6y ago
> I can't get through Baxter's writing either. Well, I did manage one book and his ideas are grand, such that one keeps thinking about it for a while after reading his stuff. He also reuses his "grand" ideas. For instance, I skimmed Xeelee Redemption because it's apparently the first book where he actually depicted a Xeelee, and a lot of the chapters were rehashes of ideas he'd previously explored (e.g. humans evolving into hive organisms, species surviving environmental destruction by becoming symbiotic composite organisms).