City at the end of Time

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / Bear, Greg, Science Fiction / Bear, Greg
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Bear's work contains sweeping futuristic vistas populated by creatures spawned from a decaying universe. The young heroes, each assigned to protect a fragment of the universe's history, must survive long enough to pass that knowledge onto the new universe that is being born.

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Not sure why this was written submitted by rsc on June 21, 2012, 10:45am Greg Bear is a fine writer - and the characters in this novel are well drawn and sympathetic. (I.e.: you can understand even the antagonists - the characters you hate.)

But good Science Fiction generally explores a set of ideas - and great science fiction (or literature) resonates with the human condition.

The only Idea (with a capital "I") I can extract from this book is a co-mingled idea of "Fate" and "Alternity" (which Kieth Laumer explored as an action oriented series years ago) with an alternative idea of "Time".

The "Idea" is interesting - but the treatment as an apocalyptic end-of-time-itself story is so grim and depressing that reading through it is a slog rather than a joy. There's only so much marching through dust and distortion I can read before I loose the necessary "willing suspension of disbelief" in order to appreciate any kind of literature. Frankly, most literature requires a "willing suspension of disbelief" on my part because the settings are typically so foreign to me in any event. A "willing suspension of disbelief" is something the reader brings to the novel - but the author can abuse it, and I'm afraid that enough abuse happened here to leave me very dissatisfied with the work.