The Doors of Eden: An exhilarating voyage into extraordinary realities from a master of science fiction

Reviews

Karen

That would have confounded the set up I spose but a few more pages coulda been fun. This wasn’t so ponderous as, but recognizably the author of, Children of Time.

I kinda wish the opening of the story had followed Mel and thumbs into the Birdmen world, rather than dwell with Lee in the thumbful London. ) bad guy and the humans tend to be white Brits though, at least, not all binary. Was it coincident that the primitive intellects and the foremost intellects didn’t have thumbs and weren’t inclined to coercion?

Overall I enjoyed The Doors of Eden; a couple days, a fair adventure, and a lot of book for the money ($11,tradepaperback,597pages). He was possessed by an entirely different muse when he wrote the short and whimsical Made Things which I just loved.

I am a big proponent of diversity but Rove is a banal, one dimensional (izzat a pun? I do appreciate that Tchaikovsky didn’t make this entirely human-centric, though it is very nearly so.