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This is easily the best science fiction book I've read all year. It is a bit slow to start out, but the characters are amazing, and the slow, progressive unfolding of the stunning concepts involved makes them hit you all the harder. I'm normally irritated by books that occur largely in flashback, but it's used to good effect here, coordinating all of the emotional plots to prepare you for the ending. The human science is plausible, the alien science is otherworldly. I loved it!

Now, one of my favorite SF books. Great characters, in fact after the beginning and until near the end it's a lot about the lives of the three main characters. The great thing was that the simple premise at the beginning grew over time and creates an ending with some truly amazing and thought provoking ideas.

The Earth is enclosed in some sort of membrane and time outside passes at the rate of thousands of years per year on Earth. What unimaginable force has the power to do such a thing, and why? This book bored me to tears.

Read it if you like Science Fiction. It was slow getting started, but it is worth getting through the boring human emotion stuff, to get to the science fiction. This story had some very interesting ideas, but I felt like it didn't explore some things as much as it should have. I would really like him to write a sequal, because I think that there is a good story in what happened next.

Not a big science fiction fan, especially when they get technical and over my head, and this book doesn't. I really enjoyed this story, could hardly put it down.