Good but underdeveloped
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This high-tech adventure has few slow spots and speeds through mysteries, plots, counter-plots, and politics. I want to revisit this scary but eerily probable future of humanity, as the fictive universe created by the author seems ripe for more stories that could be quite good. Character development is slightly less than ideal, especially for the supporting characters. The book is short, and could have benefitted from some "fleshing-out" so that we could feel we know the people as well as we got to know their universe. The plot itself was good, but just not developed as much as would be ideal.
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Good concept - but drawn out
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Some great ideas - but takes a while to get to the real story - then the first part of the book a bit pointless. all the real action in the last fifth of the book - but its worth waiting for - some great ideas and concepts - which is why we read Sci-Fi in the first palce. Is it not?
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Decent
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The wryly amusing narrator leads us through his hair-raising adventure with some aplomb, and the plotting is taut enough, the ideas sufficiently intriguing, to make this a highly enjoyable read. Just maybe the ending is a bit rushed, although I had kind of 'foreseen' it anyway so wouldn't have cared to linger. Recommended if not life changing stuff.
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Almost a sequel to Blood Music, very well written.
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There are a few books I've read that always affect me the same way, 'hard to put down' doesn't really describe them. Life & commitments slip, when I'm not reading 'the' book, where the plot is going is always on my mind. Not being able to guess the plot always plays a factor in this. Bloom is one of these books. Similar concepts to Greg Bears Blood Music, however this book stands on it's own and takes your imagination further still. It's the kind of book that has you thinking how the plot & characters would continue after the book has ended.
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A fast paced scary sci fi Götterdämmerung
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This is hard science fiction, and the guy seems to know what he's talking about, especially in the space flight passages. I also liked the "ladderdown" technology, complete with economic considerations. The book has a simple story but the descriptions of the bloom itself are worth the price of admission. In retrospect I realized that the author ignored the heat problem (all that fancy chemistry would surely cause fires) and fudged the question of where the bloom was getting all its information from (in the sense of negative entropy), but what the heck. I wonder, will the world end like this? Maybe this, and not nukes, is what quashes sentient life before interstellar flight becomes possible.
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