So this was actually the second time I read this; the first was immediately after the book's publication back in 1991.
Earth is a twisting together of a number of different narrative threads, mostly spinning about the effects of dropping a subatomic black hole into the earth. It's fanciful in that respect, and fun.
In this novel, however, Brin stuck his nose fifty years into the future and managed to predict a number of interesting things. You can see in this novel how early imaginings of a global network (i.e.: the Internet) and its citizens from around the world might act. It wound up being quite accurate, and it's kind of cool to see how things have played out.
It's as good now as it was way back when. 5 of 5 stars.
Earth is a twisting together of a number of different narrative threads, mostly spinning about the effects of dropping a subatomic black hole into the earth. It's fanciful in that respect, and fun.
In this novel, however, Brin stuck his nose fifty years into the future and managed to predict a number of interesting things. You can see in this novel how early imaginings of a global network (i.e.: the Internet) and its citizens from around the world might act. It wound up being quite accurate, and it's kind of cool to see how things have played out.
It's as good now as it was way back when. 5 of 5 stars.
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