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I think the novel you're referring to is 'Timescape', and it was written by Gregory Benford. From what I remember (and it's been 20 years at least since I read
by monkey_monkey 3y ago
I think the novel you're referring to is 'Timescape', and it was written by Gregory Benford. From what I remember (and it's been 20 years at least since I read it), it's quite a bleak story.
- petre 3y agoYup, it was about the same size but maybe still better than Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Red from what I remember? At least I've finished reading it.
- KineticLensman 3y ago(spoilers) Timescape and Red Mars are very different in very different in nature and size. Timescape is a self-contained end-of-the-world story, but set in a multiverse, so some of the characters do get out alive. Red Mars is the first part of a lengthy trilogy, which is ultimately optimistic about humanity itself, even though the story contains environment collapse, devastation, and war. [Edit] To be clear, the overall story of which Red Mars is just the first part is much longer than Timescape.
- petre 3y agoThey're about the same thickness and number of pages and I've read them at about the same age. Timescape got the Nebula award, Red Mars got the BSFA and Nebula awards. They have about the same number of stars on Goodreads, so roughly the same reception? I haven't finished reading Red Mars, I think I grew tired with the endless descriptions. Maybe the other two Mars books are better? Dunno, never got around reading them, moved on. Both might be okay books to turn into movies, with Red Mars just use the lenghty descriptions as documentation for filming the scenes.