The Bookaholic

This is the second of Clarke and Baxter’s Time Odyssey series.

At the end of the previous installment, Lieutenant Bisea has been returned from Mir to her own time and place.  She figures only peripherally in this installment.

Mostly, this book is about the sun-storm that is going to pretty much fry the solar system.  All manner of interesting and semi-interesting characters — politicians, scientists, military types, lunatics — come together to create a shield that will keep the sunstorm from frying Earth.  Bisea is there only to warn people that it was the Firstborn aliens who caused the sunstorm in the first place.

While it’s an interesting story, it’s much more about the science part of science fiction… development of individual characters doesn’t go much past a thinly fleshed-out stereotype.  In fact, several of the characters are simply cardboard cutouts propped up to serve a particular function.

If you enjoyed geeking out to the hard science part of the scifi genre, this is the book for you.  But if you want to know a bit more about the characters running around saving the world, you might want to skip this one.  I’m not sorry I read it, but I’m not likely to read the third book in this series.

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