City at the End of Time by Greg Bear – Review

City at the End of Time by Greg Bear

City at the End of Time, Greg Bear’s eschatological new novel, is a book I can admire but not love.

I can admire it because it is ambitious, intellectually satisfying (it panders to the self-regard of all us book readers), complex and rich. Yet I cannot love it because the pacing is erratic though generally slow, the characterisation is not distinctive enough for me to be sure I can always tell even the main characters apart, it builds to far too many false climaxes, and it consistently withholds information from the reader even if that information would not significantly spoil any twists or surprises.

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