The Bookaholic

This is the first book in a series by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.  Because I found the second book in the series among the hundreds of books I own, and because I just can’t read a series of books out of order (well, except for J. D. Robb’s Eve Dallas stories), I requested this book from Booksfree.

The main idea behind the story is that some incredibly ancient intelligence has ripped the heck out of the very fabric of space-time, and reorganized the planet (Earth) so that it has chunks of land (including people and animals) from virtually every band of time… from the days of the woolly mammoths right up to 2037.

Needless to day, this creates a few conflicts, not the least of which are the conflicts the earth (or Mir, as they chose to call it) has with itself as it attempts to integrate Ice Age glaciers with modern pollution and global warming.  In other words, the weather sucks.

And all the while, these strange metal objects are watching everything that’s going on.

At the very end of the story, one of the characters gets sent back to her proper space-time.  That’s where book two picks up.

Like everything else Sir Arthur ever wrote, there’s a heavy dose of actual science in this science fiction.  I’ve never been disappointed by any of his works.  Come to think of it, I’ve like everything I’ve read by Stephen Baxter, too.

If you are a fan of the science end of science fiction, you’ll like this one

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