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Gem of an ending for the conclusion,
By M-I-K-E 2theD "2theD" (The Big Mango, Thailand) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Triumph of Time (Paperback)
The conclusion to the Cities in Flight saga is of book #4: The Triumph of Time. Like the first three stories, this story is of a struggle between the city and its administrators against an encroaching evil. However, book #4 ramps us the clash of confrontation by adding a parallel of sparring matches. This may seem to be an engaging aspect of the book, but the two clashes are as bipolar as the word suggests thereby rendering the collective book, as a whole, to feel stitched together.Within the first conflict, the City is taken under hostage by religious extremists who protest over New Earth's use of the philosophy called Stochasticism. The conflict is quickly resolves through some quick wit reminiscent of the classic problem/solution sort of science fiction back from the 50s and 60s. The plows forward into the second and more interesting conflict- that with the realities of a parallel anti-matter universe and the coming of the end of the universe by June 3rd, 4104. It's only in the last forty or so pages that the story really begins to pick up pace because the first eighty pages had me putting the book up and down like no tomorrow as I was beginning to doubt Blish's grand finale. The finale is chalked full of based-on-reality physic and hypothetical physics, too, where the cast find that their fate is drawing ever so closer. The implications of their actions are a fantastic conclusion to a somewhat lengthy, yet important, but also rather dry series.
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From Back Cover,
By Avid Reader "Jim" (Columbus, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Triumph of Time (Paperback)
APOCALYPSE!When the scientists of the wandering planet, journeying through inter-galactic space, heard the sound of hydrogen atoms coming into existence out of nothing, they realized that they had accidentally discovered the birthplace of continuous creation. They had lifted the curtain and caught an instant's glimpse of the Unknowable. But to have looked it full in the face could have been no more fatal... For later, much later, they were to learn that they had also uncovered mankind's Day of Judgment!
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