2 posts about "science-fiction"

Wow. I picked this up sight unseen from a recommendation on reddit. Great holiday read, and different. The aliens are refreshingly different and the middle half of the book is quite a ride.

4 stars as there are two strong whiffs of deus ex machina in the plot, which I'll leave for the reader.

So many ideas. It's my favourite first contact book. While some of the ideas might be over the top, they keep coming. Whats really impressive is that this is just book 1 of a trilogy and the ideas keep going.

This is a seminal work in science fiction, the kind which only comes once a decade (if so). I still think about the ideas and philosophies in the book