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WOW. This book changed my view of the solar system forever.McAuley shows a superb understanding and vision of the post-Global Warming catastrophe on earth, clearly presented, fascinating. One of the best and most likely scenarios: 1. Global Warming causes severe disruptions to society and agriculture2. Sudden Methane release from ocean clathrates - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathra...creates the "Overturn" - a total catastrophic climate change collapsing society.3. The rise of the super-rich...
Gave up at 55%. Can't make myself read further. I find it too much of a chore with its many schemes, intrigues and politics.
I've enjoyed several of Paul McAuley's novels, and bought this book the instant I saw it. The back cover promised an exciting, intelligent story. After 70 pages I did something I rarely do--I put it back on the shelf. This book needed a strong editor.If the following excerpt from page 68 excites you, or if you love Kim Stanley Robinson's novels, or if you have a lot of time and patience, you would probably like this novel."Soil was not a random mixture of inorganic, organic and living material;
A strong sci-fi story with deep socio-political resonances. Much easier to read than many of the recent additions to the genre. Furthermore, the characters had depth, complexity, and were very well developed. A wholesome, entertaining, and all-around good tale.
Paul McAuley’s The Quiet War tells the story of the build-up towards a Solar-System based space war, that features advanced plausible technology and planetary realism. Unlike some space operas, such as The Expanse (begins with Leviathan Wakes), there are no mysterious, meddling, and near magical aliens. Well, this is the first of a series, and so I have yet to see where it goes from here – but so far, it is all a play on human conflict.After the overpopulation, environmental collapse, and politi...
2 Stars until I can push through this one. I have read 33% but really remember very little of it. Great writing, great vocabulary, and some cool science fiction ideas. Flat and dull characters, the only one that I remotely like is Macy. I will try to comeback and start this one over again, as I really want to read this book.
DNF at 35%- Boring. :(
Quite clever in its exploration of the social "process" of going to war ... from the demonising of the opposition amongst the populous to the engineering of diplomatic incidents and the exaggeration of the enemies threat (weapons capability). (Almost) all of the viewpoint characters are greedy, self-serving, politically ambitious scum. Anyone else detecting some not-too-subtle parallels with recent events? On top of that there is some fairly detailed exploration of issues of environmental manage...
Blockbuster hard sf/space opera in Mr. McAuley Greater Brazil future history In the 2200's, a century after the big Overturn - an ecological and social catastrophe that left vast swaths of Earth disaster area - Earth is rebuilding under 3 big powers dominated by "Families" that rose with prominence with their "Green Saints"The religion of Gaia is dominant though in Greater Brazil it is mixed with traditional Catholicism, in the EU with secularism and in the Asian Sphere with traditional Asian re...
Paul McAuley’s The Quiet War was the second course in my “Presidents’ Day Brain Candy” Weekend (see my review of The Caryatids: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...), and I wound up liking it more than The Caryatids. That despite the fact that it suffered from a very slow beginning – I almost gave up but the action picked up after section one and the info-dumping largely ceased. The info-dumping was the second factor that almost made me stop reading. One of the main characters, Macy Minnot,
McAuley utilizes a host of scifi tropes in this novel that readers of the genre will immediately identify with (for better or worse). We are about 200 years in the future, and Earth has suffered through climate change from hell; what is left is divided among three super powers-- Brazil, the EU and the Pacific league. A new religion-- gaiaism-- has emerged and humanity on Earth works to restore the ecosystem with a religious fervor. Meanwhile, humanity thrives on the moons of the outer planets an...
