
Poseidon's Wake
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Adjoa Andoh
"Few SF writers merge rousing adventure with advanced futuristic technology as skillfully as Alastair Reynolds" (Toronto Star), the award-winning author of On the Steel Breeze.
In the conclusion of his Poseidon's Children saga, the Akinya family receives an invitation from across the stars - and a last opportunity to redeem their name....
"Send Ndege". The cryptic message originated 70 light-years away from the planet Crucible, where Ndege Akinya lives under permanent house arrest for her role in the catastrophe that killed 417,000 people. Could it be from her mother, Chiku, who vanished during a space expedition decades earlier?
Ndege's daughter, Goma, a biologist, joins the crew of the Travertine dispatched to Gliese 163 to uncover the source behind the enigmatic message. Goma's odyssey will take her not only into the farthest reaches of space but centuries into her family's past, where the answers to the universe's greatest mysteries await....
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Excellent performance
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The trilogy was rendered for us as a long string of montages between rather sparse events. Time and attention went into every scene, but it's all just characters standing around, with no ability to act on what little information they have. Subplots spring up everywhere, and turn out to be completely pointless as soon as the story moves on. The only result is that the character personalities are colored just slightly. Even the events that are at the heart of the story come off strangely. A transmission sent across 70 lightyears just for fun apparently, a sabotage plot that exists for essentially no reason, and of course the centerpiece of the whole series, Poseidon itself, completely ignored by the cast, even at the culmination of events.
The only reason the story has any purpose at all is because Eunice's character regularly forces narrative on the reader in the form of random conjecture, covering topics such as the Watchkeepers, Poseidon and its wonders, what the Endbuilders's must have intended for the universe, their solution to a universe-scale issue, what Poseidon must represent for other species. As a reader, it's all so hollow that you start to see through it rather quickly.
This story, most of all, communicated the uniqueness of everyone's relationships with other characters, and there are a couple of magnificent scenes that were likely At the core of Reynolds's vision for the story, and yet somehow all of the characters come up short in my view. They all say the predictable thing. They all complain in the expected manner. They offer each other perfectly reasonable but highly mundane comforts. They seem to act and think in a contextual vacuum, as if every scene was written independently, somehow only vaguely influenced by events that literally just took place.
When the story is somehow most vulnerable and begging for plot advancement, it's given to us in some supremely bizarre anti-"deux ex machina", something that puts a wrench in the whole story just so that the story should go where Reynolds imagined it should. Mpose's role, Kanu's ship damaged around Poseidon, the use of nanomachinery, the sabotage plot, Eunice's ability to send a message across 70 ly of space and yet can't produce a signal strong enough to contact a ship in the same system, Eunice's alarmingly selective loss of memory any time she might actually be useful... all of it exists just to give texture to something that is frankly quite boring. These are all just loose ends that I guess Reynolds thought there was no reason to tie back into the story, and none of the characters seem to notice.
As a fan of Reynolds, I don't begrudge him the time and effort that he put into this trilogy. The idea for the whole thing must have been infectious, consuming his attention. Now that he's finished it, I'll be happy to see him turn to other stories.
Reads like it's lacking plot revisions
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I've spent some time in Africa, Seen the "Wild Elephants" (not the ones in "preserves"), and there's one sad, but HARD truth, about Africa... "If an Animal Species can't support itself monetarily, with enough money coming in to hire HONEST Game Wardens and to pay for the land they're living on, the animal species has a short time left on earth in Africa" ..."The Great White Hunter" didn't make a DENT in the Elephant Population.. The AFRICANS kill(ed) 99% of the Elephants that are (and have been in the past) killed.
I don't like it, but I don't have to like it, it's "Africa", and they do things "The African Way".... I.E: "No no no no! Absolutely you can NOT go there or see that".. and then 'a little money changes hands', and suddenly you Absolutely CAN "Go There and See That"... WITH transportation, AND a government guide!
For another 10USD per day, you can hire people to haul your gear, set up tents, DOUBLE-Boil your water, and cook your food (tip, make SURE the cook washes their hands, and that the plates, utensils and cups are 'Bleached and BOILED', AND that they Cook your meal VERY VERY 'WELL DONE!')... "No" simply means "Not until we get a small 'gratuity' for allowing you to do whatever it was you wanted to do"
I can't wrap my mind around how Mr. Reynolds can write some books that are SO DEEP and FANTASTIC, and then write about "ELEPHANTS - IIIIIN - SPAAAAAACE".
Sorry, but EVERYTHING I've seen firsthand about Wild Elephants tends to lead me to the belief that they are kinda like "not-smart Horses" in the Brain department... Like Horses, You can always tell exactly what an elephant is going to do... "Whatever goes through their little Elephant/Horse Mind at that EXACT SECOND".
The whole "Flying around in a Cessna with a herd of Smart Elephants in a hidden Section of a Generation ship" takes MUCH more than just "Suspending reality 'since it's Sci-Fi'".
5 Stars because I HOPE this series is DONE!
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a great conclusion to the series probably not
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Excellent reading
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First two books are great but...
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Great Book
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Amazing hard sci fi
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Reynolds has a different kind of brain...
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It's not the story - it's the narrator
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