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“He’s a great writer. You can tell he’s a good writer because this book involves one of my least favourite things in classic science fiction: constant flashbacks to a high school civics class where an old man explains how the world works to a bunch of kids…The plot of the book now seems somewhat more chilling than when it was written. About two-thirds of the human species dies in the span of a couple of years, of explosively infectious plagues. Humanity is just starting to get itself back together from this, when someone points out, ‘Hey, there’s weird stuff growing in certain places. There’s this red scum on the ocean.’ And I don’t think it’s a spoiler to tell the reader that there’s an alien ecology now growing on earth, and the first book, at least, doesn’t tell you where it came from or how it got here.” Read more...
