World Engines: Creator
A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

But if you are out there – respect. Peace and love, as John Lennon would say. I am a huge fan of Stephen Baxter, but man this book was a slog. Our intrepid heroes have now crash-landed on the super-earth Persephone in some alternate worldline. They have to undertake an epic 100 km trek to the site wh......more

This book is like opera - after 3 hours of the show you look at your watch and realize only 15 mins really passed A tedious, unfocused journey into the lost world, with all the detail no one cares for, all the exposition you eventually skip and all the personal dramas you don't care about. As much as......more

Last year I reviewed the first book in this series, World Engines: Destroyer, with mixed results. It was interesting, unmistakably Baxter, but used Reid Malenfant, a character as its focus that I’d not really liked the first time around, in the Manifold trilogy. The ending was a bit of a cliffhanger,......more

A book that promised a great deal, but disappointingly delivered far less. Stephen Baxter is an intelligent and highly qualified man, so I am at a loss to understand this rather ordinary story. Whilst some of the characters have certain strengths, Baxter, for some reason, fills the plot with an assor......more