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    Icehenge
    Icehenge
    Icehenge
    Audiobook11 hours

    Icehenge

    Written by Kim Stanley Robinson

    Narrated by Carla Mercer-Meyer, Danny Campbell and Kevin T. Collins

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    On the North Pole of Pluto there stands an enigma: a huge circle of standing blocks of ice, built on the pattern of Earth's Stonehenge-but ten times the size, standing alone at the farthest reaches of the Solar System. What is it? Who came there to build it?

    The secret lies, perhaps, in the chaotic decades of the Martian Revolution, in the lost memories of those who have lived for centuries.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 13, 2018
    ISBN9781541488748
    Icehenge
    Author

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched scientific basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and highly praised ‘Mars’ series.

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    • 3/5
      Not bad, but not good. The characters were developed pretty well, and the writing was good. It also had interesting theories, such as how memory works when you live hundreds of years. However, the story itself didn’t interest me because it just fell flat, especially towards the end. I kept thinking, “okay, get to the good part,” but it never came. Essentially, I never felt that excitement of reading a good book.
    • 1/5
      Unlikeable characters in toxic relationships, engaged in academic handbagging. Dated.
    • 2/5
      A strange, timelost chunk of sci fi. It starts somewhere, goes somewhere, and leaves little
    • 4/5
      The best of the Mars books, Icehenge is a surprisingly philosophical look at the nature of memory and the meaning of history.
    • 4/5
      Three connected stories spread over 400 years as humans explore the solar system from the Martian settlements and discover a Stonehenge-like monument on Pluto. Humans who can afford the treatments live 800-1000 years, so 400 isn’t too long to expect the same characters may show up from one story to another. Published before the Mars trilogy, there are some familiar place names and developments mentioned here (e.g., the city of Burroughs, the progress towards a breathable atmosphere), so there was a sense of familiarity in reading this, although the overall future envisioned is more bleak than that explored in the later books. So while it’s a stand-alone novel, it was a welcome return to the Martian world so beautifully explored in the trilogy. It was also neat to see Robinson’s speculation on the development of self-publication on an Internet-like network (this was written in 1984) and find Pluto still described as the ninth planet.
    • 4/5
      Told from three different points of view, this is the story of how an ice monolith similar to Stonehenge, made from ice taken from Saturn’s rings, is discovered on Pluto and its possible origins debated and reformulated. It is also the story of a futuristic society that has colonized the solar system and expanded the human lifespan such that people are practically immortal and memory has become meaningless.The novel spans an immense length of time, beginning with the adventures of an expert in life-support systems; her ship is shanghaied, and she is pressed into the service of revolutionaries venturing on a manned mission out of the solar system for the first time, then released into an uprising on her home planet Mars. The story then jumps several hundred years into the future when an archaeologist discovers this woman’s journal in the remains of a Martian city destroyed during the revolution and theorizes that the ship that left the solar system built Icehenge as a monument to its achievement. Finally, the story shifts again to the point of view of an intellectual dilettante who visits Icehenge and exposes the truth — but never satisfactorily.There is a lot to chew on here, too much to properly summarize, from grasping the nuances of life in the future solar system to parsing out the various speculations on the meaning of the mysterious monolith. Icehenge will hold the attention of the hard science fiction fan — particularly those who have already read and enjoyed Robinson’s Mars trilogy — until the final, puzzling revelations on Pluto.