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The last part is not as frantic as the first one, for good reasons. Nevertheless there are a lot of huge orbital machines and political plots that keep it going
by pmontra 2y ago
The last part is not as frantic as the first one, for good reasons. Nevertheless there are a lot of huge orbital machines and political plots that keep it going. Maybe there is some unbalance of tension between the two parts but I enjoyed the last one too.
- moomin 2y agoUnfortunately the political plot is “Hillary Clinton fails to engage with reality and it falls to genius billionaire Elon Musk and a self-insert modelled on Neil deGrasse Tyson and a self-insert to save the day.” which has, and I think this is an understatement, aged extremely badly.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoI liked the part where one of the tech CEOs ate a bit of radioactive nickel or whatever and diarrhead to death.
- blkhawk 2y agoIt might age like fine wine once the current political situation passes. The self insert part is also very uncharitable.
- moomin 2y agoUncharitable, yes, but bluntly, he’s got form. Look at Dodge in Reamde. And I dunno about age improving it. Niven and Pournelle’s politics just looks kind of ridiculous now, even if you don’t know exactly who they had a bee in their bonnet about.
- Vecr 2y ago> and a self-insert modelled on Neil deGrasse Tyson I don't think that's horribly unrealistic, is it? He's pretty much a scientist the media picked to represent the topic, like Dr. Fauci in real life. They could have picked a coronavirologist, but they didn't.