6 reviews for:

Bloom

Wil McCarthy

3.42 AVERAGE

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alexcolleyhart's review

4.0
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
informative inspiring slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mjfmjfmjf's review

3.0

Overreaching. Basically a singularity book set within the solar system. The first half was pretty good and then it lagged. There were some interesting ideas but it just didn't read very well.

stiricide's review

2.0

Interesting concept but I'm not sure if it's well executed. Much of the book is bogged down in the hard-sf specs of the operation, which ultimately doesn't really carry the story forward, nor does it have as much impact on the story as I think the author thinks it has. The characters never really define themselves and I often had trouble telling each of the crewmembers apart.

But I wanted to read a SF about fungus-as-nanotech, and this certainly fit the prereqs I had in my head.
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zzzrevel's review

1.0

A great premise but I did not like the execution.
Just an okay read.

Fresh idea for a science fiction story - a kind of technological/biological horror overruns the inner system like a plague, and man is stuck outside on the outer planets, where not enough sunlight reaches the organism to keep it alive...

And now a very small group of people try to stop it, with a ship designed to specifically daunt the eats-all-devours-all plague/creature.