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A little confusing, nice to see old characters coming back.
The conclusion of the six-book "Galactic Center" series is somewhat disappointing. It continues the far-future timeline involving the Bishop Family of humans and their attempts to explore and survive in the "esty." *Spoilers below*So my biggest issue with Sailing Bright Eternity is that this isn't so much a book with a plot but a long series of 1-3 page "chapters" detailing the various adventures of the current point of view character. It's often like little vignettes that jump from one place to...
I confess. My guilty pleasure is good "hard" science fiction and this guy is the best. This book is the last of a series called "The Galactic Center Novels". I got hooked on this genre about 10 years ago and love it for the complete departure from the world as I experience it. The characters are well drawn and the story lines full of amazing events. There is a strong philosophical thread that runs through all of these books that asks many of the same questions any good literature asks. I really
For a variety of reasons I didn't really enjoy this series. The 3rd through 5th books were my favorites but the overall story just didn't connect with me. Not that the books didn't involve some great ideas with some mind bending concepts but I was having a hard time suspending disbelief and that's something that usually I have a harder time with in fantasy than hard SF.In this book the return of Walmsley had me groaning. The ultimate climax left me annoyed and grumpy that I'd invested so much ti...
It rambled on for what felt like an eternity! I finished it, and of course, the series, which was great, but this was trudge. It became tedious and boring and I felt about 50% of it could have been wisely summarised - almost all of the 'Sawyer-eske' adventures of Toby. Otherwise a great read and extremely well-written. Will source other books by this author.
In this sixth and last of the Galactic Center series, we have a title which I think is my favorite title for any novel I've ever read: "Sailing Bright Eternity" evokes such a beautiful and even transcendent image. Anyway, the entire series was superb for me and Benford is among my favorite hard science fiction authors.
Galaxy center holds vast intelligence that may spell humanity's doom or boon. Enjoyable conclusion to series that explores that various forms of intelligence do not, always, equate with virtue. There is humanity in positive outlook of future, without Benford showing his scientific background. He is good with character.
Brentford clearly has a galaxy of awesome, incredible ideas. Unfortunately, he often struggles to bring them together in a cohesive plot, and this book is no exception. I'm glad I finished the series, but it was definitely a slog at times.
Good ending to the series. A little sad but ok.
Very creative future world. REally interesting take on overpopulation and expressed belief that people will not come to terms with with it.
I only completed this book because I wanted to know how the story ended. The series degenerated and this was the worst one. I would recommend reading Tides of Light as an enjoyable stand alone book and ignore the rest.
Finally finished the series! The ending was rough and honestly I thought about quitting more than a few times.I promise a more detailed review soon but just know, while there are some awesome parts of the series, I should have spent better time reading a better series.
We have Toby, Kileen, Abraham, Nigel, and copies of several of the above moving about through time and space, along with machine intelligences that never seem to come alive. Uhm, well I mean that more often than not they just show up and destroy what-(and whom)-ever Benford has spent the last few chapters describing. I can't say I was excited to see Nigel return, and he does get a lot of Benford's attention, but he is less annoying than in the first two books.The ending fell flat for me, but tha...
Very disappointing. The first three books were good to very good but the last two, and the last particularly, deteriorated into confusion.
Massa complicat d'entendre. L'estil narratiu de l'autor no enganxa tot i que les idees que hi desenvolupa son originals.
A satisfying finish to a very solid series. Overall, this is definitely more of an idea-driven plot line than an event-driven one, but it is still good reading. You can definitely see Benford's influence in some newer sci-fi authors, such as Alastair Reynolds.
Pretty disappointing and self-indulgent (on the author's part) conclusion to this series. Huge swaths were plot-irrelevant and a complete slog, present seemingly just because the author wanted to bring back favorite characters from the series. I get that the author is enthusiastic, but if they don't engage the reader emotionally, or relate to the plot, what's the point?It ended up a disjointed pastiche as we got various life stories in sections, only one of which was genuinely engaging in its ow...
Marvelously weird. A great ending to Benford's awesome scifi epic, sure to delight fans of both hard sf and Space Opera.
Naprawdę dobra rzecz! Doskonale przemyślana, wielowątkowa opowieść o losach ludzkości. Uniwersum niemalże jak z Stargate Universe. Te przeklęte roboty... Widać w niej rękę naukowca, fizyka. Oj naprawdę polecam.
