Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson

These books were full of so many wonderful things, but the unexpected and quite unassuming insights were often worth writing down. An example:

history was a wave that moved through time slightly faster than an individual life did, so that when people had lived only to seventy or eighty, they had been behind the wave by the time they died; and how much more so now.

The compelling visions of a colonised solar system that were fleshed out in this last book were fascinating, This ridiculously awesome vision of Jupiter:

... and flying gas lanturns had been dropped into the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, clusters of them igniting some of the planets helium3 in points of light that were too brilliant to look directly at for more than a second. The fusion burns were suspended before electro magnetic reflecting dishes that put all the light out into the planet's plane of the ecliptic, thus the banded monster ball was now made an even more spectacular sight by the achingly bright diamond dots of some twenty gas lanturns wandering its surface.

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Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson

or maybe all the histories would be like that if one had really been there and could judge them properly

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Enders Game - Orson Scott Card

Classic.

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Time for the Stars - Robert A. Heinlein

Brilliant. Refreshing to read something with my suspension of disbelief intact.

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Blackout - Connie Willis

It's funny I can suspend disbelief to allow time travel but not accept some other aspects of the story.

In 2060 someone hands someone else a sheaf of papers, the product of their 'research'. Really in 50 years we are going to be handing each other paper? I don't think so.

We have the ability to hardwire 'implants' into our brains, but those implants will be memory constrained? Feels contrived because it is.

A university educated historian doesn't know when Pearl Harbour happened.

Nobody really dies.

Historians are basically self obsessed, uninformed, amateurs with random, erratic theories on how their actions effect the course of history.

Didn't enjoy this book so much. I care so little about these characters that I am not going to bother with "All Clear" (the second half of this behemoth).

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