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Re:Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012) by david-given on Saturday October 29, 2016 @07:42PM (#12827156)
The first two are excellent. But then you can tell that Pratchett's influence has waned, and Baxter's bitterness and misanthropy is creeping in; in The Long Mars everyone's painfully disfunctional and whiny.

I'm still not sure I want to read the last two. I swore of solo Baxter books after getting burnt by Titan.

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Re:Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012) by rm445 on Saturday October 29, 2016 @07:48PM (#12827183)
Sigh, that's another one on my reading list. I thought Baxter's Voyage was a wonderful novel - quite dry, but masterfully put-together, using NASA's true history to inform how an alternate history might have gone. Titan seems irresistible, but it sounds like it might be quite bitter.
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