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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
For a book about incredibly, fantastically advanced alternate universes and jailbroken iPads that can navigate between any, undocumented parallel universe, this book was really boring. I think, fundamentally, my problem is I am more interested in an alternate world with different theoretical software & circuitry than hardware history--so what if Babbage builds his engine or not, what happens if we have something other than Boolean logic guarding our logic gates? How does that effect computation time, design, and whatnot. The existence of a Babbage engine or not is a coin toss of alternate history, whereas Boolean logic is a fracture, each splinter throwing things into wild disarray. Which brings me to my point--all of the differences in this book are like coin tosses, with alters replicating throughout them. You can't really have one without the other, really.
And this is what you get from a bored, sick ex-historian who loves computers. Still bored by your book.
And this is what you get from a bored, sick ex-historian who loves computers. Still bored by your book.
Bit of a fail grab from the library shelves, since it's a little hard sci-fi for my tastes and also the second in a series. Still kind of different and interesting. Still not sure why I chose it, since when I cracked it open for the first time and read the jacket copy, I said "WHAT?" out loud.
Endlich bin ich fertig geworden! Der zweite Teil der Everness Reihe hat mich aber leider nicht so überzeugt wie der erste; alles war irgendwie langatmig und ab 25% habe ich erst einmal verstanden, dass die Handlung "gesplittet" wurde und nun von Everetts und der Sicht seines Alters aus erzählt wird. Die Handlung braucht auch eine Weile, bis sie in Fahrt kommt, ist dann aber spannend und hat stellenweise Page-Turner-Qualitäten. Das Ende ist natürlich offen und es bleibt noch genug aufzulösen für den dritten und letzten Band.
EDIT: Las eben in einem Interview, dass die Reihe so lange fortgeführt wird, "wie es sich kommerziell lohnt". Das heißt, wir müssen wohl noch eine Weile warten bis Everetts Vater gefunden wird...
EDIT: Las eben in einem Interview, dass die Reihe so lange fortgeführt wird, "wie es sich kommerziell lohnt". Das heißt, wir müssen wohl noch eine Weile warten bis Everetts Vater gefunden wird...
Everness Book 2, is an excellent follow up to Planesrunner. A complex Y/A novel set in the Multiverse. Great Baddies, as weell as great narrator and crew of the Everness ( an Airship) which is a fine location for the base from which the story springs. Good humoured, tense at times, some nice horror moments all in all a cracking good read.
Finishes in a way which leaves you waiting for what I presume is the final instalment, hopefully out this year.
Finishes in a way which leaves you waiting for what I presume is the final instalment, hopefully out this year.
What do you do when you have a ridiculously clever young man who can solve almost any mathematical problem, play really good football, has the talent to travel interdimensionally and is just a really good guy? Have his enemy be himself, from another dimension, with lasers. :)