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This is one of the BEST books I have read in a LOOOONG time. I couldn't put it down - led to many a sleepless night! The premise is there is a black hole at the center of the earth that is found just about 30 years from now (2007). The earth's population is 10 billion and the ice caps are melting. Animal species have been saved in "arks" all over the globe (we hope they are saved anyway). Commentary on society and internalistic ideas is amazing and VERY good.

this book is written by an astrophysicist and takes many unexpected turns - especially the ending! A MUST READ for Sci-Fi Fans from the author who brought us The Postman and many others.

I really did not like this book. The end was good, but the long slog to get there wasn't worth it. The POV jumps all over, with many characters existing solely to express the author's pontifications. I had no problem with the science, and enjoyed the extrapolation of the future from the culture of the late 80s. The expansive growth of the internet is just about spot on, but then he ruins the effect by creating new swear words for his characters to use. They just sounded silly. Most of this book seemed to go nowhere and have no point. The plot gets lost amid the countless warnings and philosophical statements of the author. Characters feel like vehicles for the author's opinion, not real people. It got old, fast. I can't recommend this book.

Interesting, but so many changes of view, and enough pseudo-scientific jargon that it was easy to get lost. Worth the read, probably better for hard-core science folks.

If you are looking for a book written like the Uplift books, this is not it. The book is overly long, has too many crazy plots. The dialoge is flat, and the Characters unlikable.