Title: Tedious
Review: Kim Stanley Robinson may write good books(I wouldn't know, as this is my first go at reading his work), but this is not one of them. The premise is interesting, certainly, but the plot is non-existent. The high point of the novel is a severe rain storm that floods the DC area and it occurs in the last few chapters of the book.I choked down pages and pages of rambling on about how the scientific community chooses which ideas to fund and promote, more pages about how the evolutionary theory informs human behavior and yet more pages about Buddhism in the hopes of finding a point. Something! Sadly, it was not to be found. The most interesting character in the book is a two year old, who-in one of KSR's more startling tangents-may be a reincarnated lama. No, really. I have no idea what that particular idea is doing in this book. Skip this, unless you live for committee meetings and the political sides of science.
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