Jim H. reviewed on 1/13/2011 + 47 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

Jack McDevitt has a wonderful imagination and an exceptionally gripping writing style. His post apoplectic novels are fun reads and I consider them to be brain candy as they require little effort to read and keep me interested. Here's the BUT: In his story development for this book he creates a vivid picture of the future - after a devastating plague wipes out the majority of man kind - you know - fun reading! His character development is pretty unique and his adventures are pretty cleaver. Then he adds a chapter where Winston Churchill is projected by a computer from the past and chats with one of the characters. A meaningless and silly interruption to the story. Another story line deals with another computer that still manages to keep some of the trains from the past operating - another just silly bit of fantasy. Don't know why he insists on dropping these bits into his books, but it kind of spoils it for me. Glad I read it, however. Nice story all in all.

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