Salvation or Annihilation? A strange artifact has been discovered on a distant planet, an artifact that may be the key to humanity's salvation. For we at war with the Fallers, an alien race bent on nothing short of genocide, and this is a war we are losing. The artifact is not only a powerful weapon, but possibly the rosetta stone to a lost superscience . . . a superscience that the Fallers may have already decoded. Or it may be a doomsday machine that could destroy the very fabric of space.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
weak characters... distorted science:
After having read some of Nancy Kress's short fiction as well as Beggars in Spain and Probability Moon, I was expecting substantially more from this novel than I found. What made Probability Moon an interesting read was the unique alien culture it depicted. The characters may have been two dimensional and her interpretation of modern physics jumbled, but the anthropology of a society in which all ideas and opinions are arrived at by a biologically imperative consensus made up for that. In Probability... more info
Good history but confusing at times:
The actual idea behind the book is pretty good and is very interesting. The problem is that characters lack certain personality and the just have one or two emotions, also the science parts maybe quite confusing for some (especially me because i'm from Mexico) but still you'll probably be able to understand the most part. You'll probably like this book but it's not an action book and progresses kind of slow in some parts but still it's quite a fun book because of the theories and things like the shared... more info
Good hard SF, interesting characters:
...Any good SF reader knows Nancy Kress, and knows her writing style well. In Probability Sun, she does not reach the pinnacle of her success (though Moon is pretty close), but she nonetheless writes a decent novel. Particularly interesting are her complex characters, for which she is well known throughout her Beggars in Spain series; (*minor spoilers follow*) you find yourself agreeing with Capelo's desire to murder the Faller, you find yourself sort of surprised at the backbone of Kaufmann, and the... more info
Interesting physics--but need more character development:
The human race is losing a war against the 'Fallen' a mysterious race who kills rather than communicating. Now the Fallen have discovered a shield that protects them from anything the humans can throw at them. If they don't do something, the human race is doomed.
In PROBABILITY SUN, a small group of scientists and soldiers travel to a fascinating world of 'shared reality' to uncover an artifact that just might have something to do with the interstellar travel that humans have discovered but don't... more info
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