Monitoring a high risk conjunction between two large defunct objects in LEO

Re:Monitoring a high risk conjunction between two large defu... by mlang23 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:17AM (#24774704)

Same here. I felt like the book could actually end after the remaining women decided on genetic manipulations. What followed thereafter was quite boring, and I stopped reading it as well. Actually sad, because the backstory is likely just preparation for what follows. But it was just too boring to go on.

Prompted by a comment from someone yesterday, I actually replayed the Snow Crash audiobook in the evening. Comparing SC and SE I notice that SC feels quite juvenile. I didnt notice that as much when I first read it in my 20s. But these days, it feels a bit too much over the top. Contrary to that, SE somehow feels too grown up.

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Re:Monitoring a high risk conjunction between two large defu... by j4nt4b on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @12:18PM (#24778326)

Completely agree. He overwrote himself into a blind corner - wasted so much time describing the orbital mechanics of chains that my eyes rolled all the way up into the back of my head, completely spoiled any remote semblance of hard sci-fi he had going with the surprise Ur-Middle Earth origin story, and finally never justified all the self-indulgence with even a single word about the agent.

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