Title: Too many pages, not enough happens
Review: Reading along in Forty Signs of Rain, I kept having flashbacks to the Niven & Pournelle classic Lucifer's Hammer. It wasn't until I got to the end of Forty Signs that I realized how apt that comparison really was.This was a disappointing book. So many pages for so little to happen, especially when compared to Robinson's Red Mars, where he got us to Mars early on in the first book of the trilogy. We get pretty much nowhere in this book.Niven & Pournelle did all they needed to do in one nice, fat book. I'm not interested enough in where Robinson is going to see if he does a comparable job in three books. Definitely not his best moment.
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