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Posted March 27, 2012
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SeeingIsBelieving
Posted November 17, 2009
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Good ideas without a great plot
I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Vinge's books such as Fire in the Deep so I was looking forward to Rainbow's End. It is totally different but full of provocative and feasible ideas of how virtual environments will overlay mundane reality in the near future. He is an excellent writer with wonderful descriptive powers, but the ideas clearly were clearly paramount to the plot and characterization. His use of high school as a setting was good, but I didn't really care about the students or teachers since they seemed to be more about moving the story and illustrating ideas than about creating real people. I would like to give this a higher rating for its thought-provoking view of the future, but I can't recommend this as one of the better books I have read lately.
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well written character driven science fiction
In 2025 in San Diego Robert Gu recovers from Alzheimer¿s, but much of the world he once knew has changed dramatically since he originally fell into his fog state a few years ago and he even doubts his once highly recognized skill as a poet. He lives with his son, but struggles with the new information age in which virtual and real seem part of the same double helix feeling like a toddler, Robert realizes that even his teenage granddaughter appears more knowledgeable than him. To help him adapt to using the equipment properly, the septuagenarian Chinese American attends remedial technological classes at the nearby Fairmont High School. However, as Robert tries to learn how to properly use his gadgetry, he soon finds himself entangled in a remonstration by retired University of California at San Diego faculty disputing the replacing of the library by online databanks. That soon leads the bewildered poet into the milieu of a conspiracy to create a deadly biological weapon. --- This is a well written character driven science fiction that is at its best when readers observe the world through the mature but awed Robert. When the story line spins into the conspiratorial murky weapon of mass destruction it loses some of its strength though it contains a lot more action. Overall RAINBOWS END is a solid futuristic tale starring a wonderful hero struggling to adapt to a brave new world. --- Harriet Klausner
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