Stephen Baxter

In the sequel to Manifold: Time, space explorer Reid Malenfant continues his odyssey through the universe, while Earth is faced with the dual threat of alien invasion and overwhelming ecological devastation. Reprint.

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Hernando

This book can be confusing at times specially because there are like 5 characters you have to keep track of and they often hop into different planets and star systems without much continuity between them (the characters). So is recommended at least to write down the name of each character and where they are at the moment when reading the book. 

It can be also engrossing and slow, mainly because of the above or because the big chunks of Hard SF in each chapter/page. 

I would not recommend this book to people who don't have that much of patience for engrossing details or want some more of human drama or a light and easy to follow story because that would be difficult to find in here. 

It delivered what I was looking for, and I liked it overall. 

4,2.

Alex Deee

** spoiler alert **
           I liked this even better than the first in the series. Neanderthals on IO, travelling to the centre of the galaxy and then finding out you've been tricked into fixing the wrong star--that life in the galaxy is already doomed and you're working for a future "reboot" of life. Great stuff. I worried he'd gone of the rails with the African section, but the finale really was great. 

The moon mining and Nemoto seemed a little superfluous. 

Overall totally enjoyable.

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