Apparently he's a well-known and well thought of English author. So far a lot of the books of his that I've read have a strong biological component to them, which, since he gets it mostly right, I tend to like.
Anyway, the Destiny's Children books start with Coalescent, which goes back and forth between the present and the past, following two people in particular. So I'm not even sure it'd be called science fiction as such. The next book takes place thousands of years in the future switching points of view between a person and his time-double. The last of the three takes place 500,000 years later and switches between someone of that time and connects back to someone from the first book in the present. All three books stand alone, but do have some strong connections between them.
They're not the best books I've read, but they certainly kept my interest and gave me something to think about. The first book has a lot of historical interest -- the past stuff takes place in Roman Britain when the Romans are losing their empire. The second book has a bunch of interludes in it that have a lot to do with physics -- cosmology and descriptions of the beginnings of the universe and the organisms that inhabited each phase, I really enjoyed that bit.
He's also written some interesting books about woolly mammoths, the first one is Mammoth, and is about woolly mammoths actually surviving to the present day. I missed the second one, but read the third, which is about the mammoths having been taken to Mars and left by the humans to fend for themselves. These books weren't as interesting to me, somehow a bit too boring for some reason.
He's on my list of people to grab if I see at the library for sure but I don't think I'm going to try buying any of his books. He's got a series of books that I think relate to the Destiny's Children books, but I haven't read any of those yet.
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Date: 2006-07-01 08:04 pm (UTC)Apparently he's a well-known and well thought of English author. So far a lot of the books of his that I've read have a strong biological component to them, which, since he gets it mostly right, I tend to like.
Anyway, the Destiny's Children books start with Coalescent, which goes back and forth between the present and the past, following two people in particular. So I'm not even sure it'd be called science fiction as such. The next book takes place thousands of years in the future switching points of view between a person and his time-double. The last of the three takes place 500,000 years later and switches between someone of that time and connects back to someone from the first book in the present. All three books stand alone, but do have some strong connections between them.
They're not the best books I've read, but they certainly kept my interest and gave me something to think about. The first book has a lot of historical interest -- the past stuff takes place in Roman Britain when the Romans are losing their empire. The second book has a bunch of interludes in it that have a lot to do with physics -- cosmology and descriptions of the beginnings of the universe and the organisms that inhabited each phase, I really enjoyed that bit.
He's also written some interesting books about woolly mammoths, the first one is Mammoth, and is about woolly mammoths actually surviving to the present day. I missed the second one, but read the third, which is about the mammoths having been taken to Mars and left by the humans to fend for themselves. These books weren't as interesting to me, somehow a bit too boring for some reason.
He's on my list of people to grab if I see at the library for sure but I don't think I'm going to try buying any of his books. He's got a series of books that I think relate to the Destiny's Children books, but I haven't read any of those yet.