David Brin: Earth (EBook, 2009, Random House Publishing Group)
E-book
English language
Published Aug. 7, 2009 by Random House Publishing Group.
Earth is a 1990 science fiction novel by American writer David Brin. The book was nominated for the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1991.
It started off with an incredible premise and contains some truly excellent writing. Unfortunately it suffers from the author trying to do too much. There is considerable extraneous material that was likely intended to give additional points of view, but in the end only annoys the reader with the break in the flow of the primary story.
A solid work of speculative near-future sci fi, but somehow I had a hard time staying interested in it. It's somewhat dated now and the environmentalism feels heavy-handed. I found the number of different characters and narrative threads annoying, even though they were skillfully written and came together satisfyingly at the end.
