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Liked It “a good sci-fi book about humanity after the sun explodes.” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “I've never read anything by Clarke before, although I've seen the "2001" movies, of course. I found this to be very sketchy and never fully realized, kind of bare bones. It also was pretty boring, a huge downfall of a lot of science fiction. I'm sure he has alot of great books, but I don't think...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“It's entertaining and easy to breeze through. Like a lot of ACC's work, it's the ideas that count and this one lends to quite a bit of thinking, even when you're done with it.”
Grant G wrote this review Thursday, October 29 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“a good sci-fi book about humanity after the sun explodes.”
Brendan P wrote this review Wednesday, October 28 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“It was a good book, but it had a lot of chapters that switched back and forth in between different time periods”
Patrick W wrote this review Sunday, October 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I've never read anything by Clarke before, although I've seen the "2001" movies, of course. I found this to be very sketchy and never fully realized, kind of bare bones. It also was pretty boring, a huge downfall of a lot of science fiction. I'm sure he has alot of great books, but I don't think this was one of them.”
Dan M wrote this review Saturday, June 13 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Brilliant. I agree with my brother's review that it was way too short and I wish they had made a series. Nevertheless I thought it was an amazing read.”
Ash Bancale wrote this review Saturday, February 21 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Not a terrible book, but not very exciting either. It has some good elements regarding the future of humanity and what happens when people from a technologically advanced society meets a more laid-back and less tech-advanced society, but the ideas are not expanded very much and that's a shame. However, this is by far one of the better books of Clarke's when looking at characterization. Compared to other characters in Clarke books, the one's in Songs of Distant Earth are downright three-dimensional and interesting. All in all, it's a good read if you just need something to pass the time, but it's not particularly thought challenging.”
Comrade Charlie wrote this review Thursday, February 5 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Standard classic type sci-fi about humans colonizing a distant planet.”
moik wrote this review Thursday, December 11 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Not a bad story about humans colonizing other planets, and an encounter between those from the first wave and those from the last wave, but nothing much happens. And I admit, I was turned off by the author's note at the beginning of the book which pretty much said that everybody else claiming to write science fiction is really writing fantasy, and he's the only one who writes real science fiction. Get over yourself, already. Bah.”
DKayeS wrote this review Thursday, December 4 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Excellent story of the last ship to leave a doomed earth making a pit stop for some agua on the ocean world of Talassa, before heading on to the barren world of Sagan 2. Great characters and science await the reader of this book.”
Christophe J wrote this review Sunday, February 17 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
