cybermule | Book review - Anti-Ice (Stephen Baxter)

OK. Picked this up as its name kept appearing in my life, and as noted in other entries, in some moods that's just good enough for me. I'm not a sci-fi connoisseur, by the way. Read a lot as a young person, got bored and moved on, probably might read a bit more in the future. But this seemed pretty awesome. I read it in 24 hours, which considering I spent normal amounts of that sleeping and working is pretty good going. It was well enough written as a story to keep me gripped, I enjoyed a lot of the sensuous detail, and bar the normal levels of suspension of disbelief, the world described seemed entirely believable. And also interesting. Which is what you want from a sci-fi book, right? At times it was even sort of wryly funny. I guess I like sci-fi if it's in a slightly parallelised world, probably English, and it addresses universal issues such as technological morality and war.

So, guess it's a keeper. Amusing quote of the read:

I saw with a new aloofness how this national debate paralleled the internal ramblings of a deranged mind, which seeks to impose its inward fears and daemons on those around it