Earth

This is not an easy read in spite of the well written, accessible prose, some good characterization, and some exciting scenes. The difficulty is due to the ambitious scope of the book which seems to necessitate numerous plot strands, myriad characters, and frequent expositions and infodumps. Persona......more

Earth, the blue marble. This book, a marvel. No, the above statement(s) wasn't meant to be poetic - but it's utterly true. Where to begin in summing up this book … A young and brilliant scientist has created an itty-bitty tiny artificial black hole … and lost it "somewhere" in the center of the planet.......more

I'll preface this review by mentioning that I've been in love with this book ever since I first read it when it came out. I loved it so much that it rode my top three books of all time for many, many years, and I even jumped at the chance to meet the author in a speech he made about the transparent......more

The Large Hadron Collider is doing pretty well this early into its life. It has already produced compelling evidence for the existence of a Higgs boson. And it hasn’t produced a microscopic black hole that would sink into the centre of the Earth and devour us all. Yet. David Brin wrote Earth around t......more