From: Alejandro Dubrovsky (s328940@student.uq.edu.au)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 11:43:59 MST
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 02:39, Smigrodzki, Rafal wrote:
> For the fans of Greg Egan:
>
> At midnight I started reading Greg Egan's new book, "Teranesia", and
> finished it at 5 AM. Quite good - with a neatly unfolding storyline, and a
> very smart, cutting-edge science concept as the main premise (I won't spoil
> your future reading fun by discussing it here). The ending is a little bit
> of a letdown, as if the author was building up the suspense for a real
> earthquake, something that had a distinctly extropian flavor to it, and
> backed off on the last 3 pages. But still quite good.
>
That's about par for Egan isn't it? I mean, i consider him to be the
best sci-fi author i've ever read by far, but just about every one of
his endings is disappointing.
Alejandro
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