I honestly had no idea which risky orbital maneuvers would succeed and which would fail, which political machinations would carry the day and which would backfire, who would live and who would die. I think, if I had finished reading at the end of the first part I might have rated this book a solid 3 or 4 stars: It was fun, funny, and genuinely had me on the edge of seat for much of the time. There was plenty to enjoy in the very technically-minded plot, and even the occasional moment of genuine human emotion (“I release you from your vow”), though less than you might expect from a novel about the near-extinction of the human race.Īs many have pointed out, this novel is bifurcated quite unevenly into two parts: The first two-thirds dealing with the direct aftermath of “The Agent” that blew up the moon and subsequently led to the near-total destruction of the Earth, and a final third set 5,000 years in the future. I went into this one knowing very little indeed, so the whole thing was a pretty wild ride right from the first sentence which matter-of-factly explains that the moon was suddenly and unexplainably destroyed.
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