Friday, November 04, 2011
Factoring Humanity
by Robert Sawyer
The cover pitches this as a tale about a mysterious message from space, which, when finally deciphered, threatens to push humanity to the next stage of evolution. It does finally get to that, but when I started reading the book, I thought I was reading a completely different tale. I won't say any more, so as to preserve the shock for others. Overall, I had mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, I found Mr. Sawyer's typical scientist hero, Canadian scenery-porn and Godless spirituality to be a bit cliched. On the other, the man is a great storyteller and does an excellent job of taking a science fiction idea and fully developing it. So, yes, check it out and enjoy!
LibraryThing link
The cover pitches this as a tale about a mysterious message from space, which, when finally deciphered, threatens to push humanity to the next stage of evolution. It does finally get to that, but when I started reading the book, I thought I was reading a completely different tale. I won't say any more, so as to preserve the shock for others. Overall, I had mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, I found Mr. Sawyer's typical scientist hero, Canadian scenery-porn and Godless spirituality to be a bit cliched. On the other, the man is a great storyteller and does an excellent job of taking a science fiction idea and fully developing it. So, yes, check it out and enjoy!
LibraryThing link
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// posted by John @ 3:14 PM 
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