2312: A Novel | 
so-soI liked it overall, however it felt like the story was just kind of going in random directions at certain points. The backstory and world building was great though. The main character Swan, was very unlikeable in my opinion, but I enjoyed most of the other characters.
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I enjoyed most of this book, but in all honesty, I'm not sure I'm smart enough for it. Of all the science fiction I've read, this was the heaviest on the science, which made parts of it drag. I liked the characters and wish the story had focused more on some of the side characters and given more backstory to the main characters. So, while this wasn't necessarily my type of book, people who enjoy science will probably really like it.
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1. 😂 no. I‘m about 7650 miles from where I grew up. 🇯🇵✈️🇺🇸
2. New adventures
so-soFinally finished this book. It took me: 1year 3 months & 3 days to finish. It had a huge world building and many technical aspects. The characters lacked depth and the story moved on in a very slow pace. I had to put it down now and then just to read something else in between. The chapters was short and you could easily remember were you last left off in the story. It was not a bad story but I will not read it again.
so-soI'm reading 2312 & there are parts of it I like quite a bit, but its language continues to baffle me. It's sci-fi by content but it reads like “literary fiction.“ In general, despite the book's positive qualities (which include decent queer and polyam representation), I can't recommend it overall, though I'll post an update when I finish the book.
This is a VERY STRANGE book. I honestly can't tell if I like it or not.
panI can't finish this book. I tried. I really, really tried but I've given up. The world-building is astonishing and KSR has some really cool ideas about what humanity could look like in three hundred years. But I need more than just cool world-building. Like a plot. And interesting characters. And a protagonist I don't want to punch in the face for being such an immature, selfish, spoilt and downright unlikable human being. Ugh.
pickFuturistic look at how Earth is the home planet and space travel is the option. You can live on Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter‘s moons and Mars is the planet of people who look down on all these. Loved the science and how the Earth is replenished after its downfall. I‘m still waiting for the automatic food delivery system like the Jetsons had!🤖👾👨🏼🚀👩🏼🚀💫🚀🛸
Doing the #tomeinfinityandbeyond readathon. Took: Ship A - Read A Book Over 500 Pages for my travels :)
Also, this happened. Teehee!
Thank you Littens for everything! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
P.S. No clue what the tagged book is.
pickI can't get enough of Kim Stanley Robinson's world building, in this case a solar system wide civilization and all the technological and biological enhancements that would come with it.
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Boom. I'm caught up! Wew... that was some hard work.
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This is the one I'm reading now. Always very interested in this kind of story. Glance into one of the endless possibilities of the future of the human race.
panJust finished this and had far higher hopes- terraforming who cares. I saw "The Search for Spock" -I get it, but obviously Robinson is trying to approach Ian M Banks. Unfortunately not epic enough and a bit too sciency without characters I cared for hung in a paper thin plot, where major bits are either underwhelming or glossed over. 400 pages too long.
As I'm reading this book I long for Ian Banks! This story could be an early installment of the Culture series.
disorganized book shelf is haphazardly stacked in a kind of book jenga. this is my "fun" bookshelf, as in here squat most of the books I obsess over that aren't used for any other purpose but escapism. lord help me if I try to get to the secondary stacks behind everything else.
Oh my god. The past three weeks have been a whirlwind of work & almost no time to read, much less catch up here. We're in NH for s friend's wedding and camping for the night--enjoying a wood-smoke scented 2312 (which is AMAZING) and sending a Litsy love letter to all the readers out there tonight.💖
"A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything. ...Breathe and get drunk, oh my, to be free of all restraint, minimally clothed, lying on the bare surface of a planet, sucking in atmosphere as if it were aqua vitae, feeling in your chest how it kept you alive!" ❤️?????
Taking a lunch break!
#SFSaturday around here! I loved the first Robinson I read (Aurora) and wanted to read more. The library's copies of his Mars trilogy were out, so I picked this up instead. I'm enjoying his nuanced rendering of planet colonization & am super intrigued by the characters & mystery building up.
