• Machinist@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I respect the hell out of Baxter, he’s a hard sci-fi artist. However, he’s so unrelentingly bleak I had to quit reading his stuff.

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        3 days ago

        Can you share where you felt that way? Been a while since I’ve read him.

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          3 days ago

          The midpoint to the end of Evolution, humans basically devolve and ultimately go extinct.

          It’s been awhile since I’ve read anything by him as well.

          I remember another book where artifically created people inside a dwarf star were dying due to solar harvesting, IIRC. I remember it being depressing but fascinating. Don’t remember how it ends.

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            3 days ago

            Yeah, very fair. I guess i quite like the bleakness. I love dark and gritty stories.

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              3 days ago

              He’s an incredible author, I’d put him up there with Alastair Reynolds. I just can’t handle it.