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| Original Title: | Earth |
| ISBN: | 055329024X (ISBN13: 9780553290240) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.davidbrin.com/earth.html |
| Series: | Earth |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1991), Locus Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (1991) |
David Brin
Paperback | Pages: 704 pages Rating: 3.92 | 6808 Users | 283 Reviews
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TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutionary clock and start over.
Describe Of Books Earth (Earth)
| Title | : | Earth (Earth) |
| Author | : | David Brin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 704 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1991 by Spectra (first published 1990) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction |
Rating Of Books Earth (Earth)
Ratings: 3.92 From 6808 Users | 283 ReviewsNotice Of Books Earth (Earth)
This has a very solid collection of hard sci-fi concepts, all thrown into one place. I enjoyed it quite a lot, I cared for the characters and felt intrigued the whole time, though at some point there's more and more new concepts being thrown at you that they hit a bit too hard and becomes unbelievable.It feels as if the plot was constructed backwards to justify the arrival at one specific event, and in the process it became too far fetched. But it still works, it's a solid work of sci-fi, withThis book, although not likely to be an award-winning piece of English literature, wonderfully exemplifies how good sci-fi is a field of social commentary, thought experiments, and moral ruminations. I read this at a young age, and it was mind opening. Perhaps the glasses of youth led to a different view from that which I might have now (and that the disappointment in the poor ending has faded), but I would still definitely (or 'defo' in proper Australian) recommend.
This one was a book group read. I picked it up on Sunday morning, saw it was 600 pages and cursed. I flew threw it and finished it by Thursday. I can say I didn't actually hate it until the last 100 pages or so.Quick spoiler filled recap. It's the near future and earth has evolved into a hot, overpopulated crapsack world. Then one of our main characters through some fantasy physics creates a black hole and drops it into Earths core. So far so good. Then we discover the other black hole put there
Storyline: 3(1)/5Characters: 3/5Writing Style: 3/5World: 5/5One has only to read a few chapters to grasp that Brin is an environmentalist and that this is an environmentalist's treatise. Someone screaming at you that you "must save the Earth!" for seven hundred pages just isn't going to go well, and Brin knows this. So the author does two things to make this much more than a manifesto. First, Brin is evenhanded, fair-minded that is. It is always guiltily satisfying seeing the Greens portrayed as
This one was a book group read. I picked it up on Sunday morning, saw it was 600 pages and cursed. I flew threw it and finished it by Thursday. I can say I didn't actually hate it until the last 100 pages or so.Quick spoiler filled recap. It's the near future and earth has evolved into a hot, overpopulated crapsack world. Then one of our main characters through some fantasy physics creates a black hole and drops it into Earths core. So far so good. Then we discover the other black hole put there
This book is a treasure. It drastically changed my worldview and made me come to see the urgency of some of the issues facing our generation. One of Brin's concepts has actually become a major piece of my belief system. Besides all of this serious stuff....this is a damn fun book to read that you will not put down until you are finished!
Dang those profligate "TwenCen" forebears of ours! They went and burned off the ozone layer and depleted the water tables and used up all the petroleum, and consequently just a few decades later people lead stunted lives, devoid of privacy and required by law to maintain a near-zero environmental footprint. Those who are smart wear goggles to protect their vision from "sleeting ultraviolet radiation" (and also to record, and to upload if they wish, whatever they see). That's the background
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