Icehenge - Kim Stanley Robinson

This was a book that I had high hopes of, as the author is well known and having read some of his other books e.g. The Mars Trilogy, I thought I would be in for a good read. I’m sorry to say that having read the book. I came away with the feeling that I had just read two separate books that had somehow got split into two and joined together to make this book. The reason for saying this is that the first part of the book is full of very good ideas and some very strong character development and is a real page-turner. But the second half of the book seems to run out an idea in which direction to go and what to do with the characters introduced in the ...  Read the complete review