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Earth
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Scientist Alex Lustig has created a tiny, yet very destructive, problem—a microscopic black hole that he accidentally dropped into Earth's core. Now, racing to keep it from consuming the planet, he begins to suspect something even stranger is going on. Something linked to civilization's expanding information web.
And with the planet overpopulated and neglect taking its toll on the environment, there are those who demand a harsh solution: that Mother Earth would be better off without humanity at all . . .
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“Very dense and science heavy, which was very difficult for my non-science brain. Again, he’s chosen to include so many characters that I was often flipping back and forth to remember who was who. I felt no urgency to finish this book and probably should have DNF’d but I was intrigued but the aliens, a sub plot that went nowhere. I get the focus of the book was earth and its inhabitants but I wanted there to be aliens.
The main plot event of this book (Jen becoming earth) was very similar to a major plot event of his book Heart of the Comet (the one character becoming the computer), which came out 3 years before this. Having already read that, the reveal in this book fell flat.”
“It was a going along as science fiction then suddenly took a turn into fantasy and Gaia became sentient. Almost like the author didn't know how to finish the black hole in Earth story. And made it about something else all together.”
About David Brin
David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include
,
,
, and
, which was adapted into a film in 1998. Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. His nonfiction book about the information age,
, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin’s latest nonfiction work is
. Visit him at www.davidbrin.com.
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