“This book was absolutely fantastic. I really ended up liking it a whole lot. It's smart science fiction. It's hard sci-fi with approachable science. It has complicated characters, detailed plot lines. This is quite easily some of the best science fiction that I've ever read. So many other authors don't put the story first, and rely instead of their ability to try and awe the reader with their imagination. That doesn't ever work for me. In fact, most times it makes the books fall flat on their faces. I wish that more "supposedly" science fiction authors would realize this fact. My only real beef with the book was that the beginning was a bit difficult to follow as there are two main point-of-view characters and the whole book is told in first person. So, kind of tough to figure out who was talking at the beginning of each new section. This book, to me, shows that Reynolds is quite easily one of the best. He knows what he's about. He knows what's good. And he's definitely won over one more reader who up until this point, in fact, could easily say that he didn't like science fiction all that much. No more, though. No more.”
