REVIEW – Ark (2009) By Stephen Baxter
November 2, 2009
Strange Horizons has my review of Stephen Baxter’s Ark.
Ark is the second book in a series that started back in 2008 with Flood. My review of it can be found over at the SF Site.
There are some similarities between the reviews as I kind of built my Ark review out of the trains of thought that slowly chuffed their way out of the station when reviewing Flood. All in all, I much preferred Ark to Flood as, while the books speak to many of the same themes and ideas, Ark is not saddled to the constraints of the ecological catastrophe sub-genre. A sub-genre I think Baxter struggled with. By contrast, Ark‘s characters and narrative are much better tailored to the ideas that the book is getting at.
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