Vernor Vinge

Rainbows End

Josh Warner

Great ideas, excellent world building, but the book drops off sharply after a strong start. Toward the end I was reading to finish it rather than wanting to see what happened next.

A Novel With One Foot In The Future

Ken Gagne

Vinge's vision of the future may be more realistic than most, but his characters and plot drag. The first chapter is a bait-and-switch, introducing us to fascinating heroes, villains, and schemes, before focusing the rest of the book on less likable and interesting settings. Even one particular scene, which is identified as a diversion for the real action, is described in far greater detail across many more chapters than the situation warrants. And that's the overall problem I had with Rainbows End: too much attention in all the wrong places.

Claudiu

Thomas DeCelle

Mundy Otto Reimer

Alexander Neumann

Cindy Lieberman

Peter Tving

Chad Henderson

Aria Stewart

Nat Welch

Colin O'Brien

Scott Vandehey

Celia Adams

Joseph Aleo

Jared Kells

Bryan Alexander

Rainbows End

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