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World Engines

A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

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Trapped on an alternate Earth, the combined crews of a crashed Russian spaceship, a British expeditionary force and a group of strays from the future must work together to survive, escape and discover what led them to this point. All are from parallel universes where small changes in history led to different realities, and the tensions between the groups are rising.

But some changes were not small. The solar system has been altered, changed, shaped in the various realities, and the World Engineers - unspeakably powerful, completely unknown - are still active. Why have they populated this planet with humanity's ancestors and dinosaurs? What is on the moon of Saturn that gives off such an odd light? And even if they can be found, can they be stopped - and should they be?

Malenfant, Deidra and the rest of their party must find a way off the planet, back into space, and into the many dimensions seeking the answer....

©2020 Stephen Baxter (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group Fiction Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Solar System
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changing the narrator's was annoyibg. mid book as well as sex of narrator. why do that?

annoying narration

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Sorry to say I have given up. in the first book, the first half laboured on setting the scene. in this book the middle has stalled trying to develop the characters. maybe its not his strong point because the concept of the story is brilliant.

Getting boring

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Love the book. The narration keeps swapping who's reading the same character - annoying.

Good book, irritating production

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But I found the sciences were a tad half researched /explained / understood by the author where we actually know this stuff. A step up from the long earth series though.

Great performance

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Struggled to finish what should have been a great talking book. The story and setting were imaginative. Stephen showed off his history knowledge and ideas effectively and the characters were interesting and relatable enough. However, the pacing is some of the worst and most self indulgent I have ever come across. This because of the almost constant branching off into bloated expositions of scientific ideas. He should have stripped out half of the lengthy fan boy science explanations and told a story (it's a concept also know as a novel Stephen...). It could be a five star book but given this I feel three is generous. never mind hard science fiction it's hard going!

bloated with science pedentry

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