What did /lit/ think?

mediocre

>>9391639
Why?

Is captain john brannigan, in fact, our /rocket man/?

I really liked alien archaeology parts, and gradual reveal of human empire building, but then it all turned into very cliche finding of superadvanced aliens story. Also, lousy character creation. Everyone is somehow coupled with everyone else to the level that you expect the twists involved.

>>9391634
simple conspiracy theory: there has been so much time since the big bang that if we don't have direct evidence then it must be a conspiracy at the galactic level

>>9391725
They weren't coupled
Nostalgia for Infinities crew were coupled to the colony because of the doctor
But there was no connection between them on the Conjoiners or Yellowstone
>>9391745
Its one explanation for the Fermi Paradox that is predicated on finding the remains of numerous extinct species
So its a fictional conspiracy theory because obviously we haven't found any archeological remains
And our own behavior provides a much simpler explanation: we wipe ourselves out
>CO2 emissions are not dangerous, the changing climate is the will of god, lets threaten nuclear armed nations

alright idea, shit writing

all alastair reynolds does is move you from infodump to infodump within infodumps with wooden characters and half the fucking book couldve been cut

>>9391806
Unlike every other far future set highly advanced technology space opera
No infodump there
The reader needs to be caught up, its not Star Wars

>>9391718
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I
As the ship descends to Hela, this begins playing through the bio mechanical corridors of the ship

>>9391793
Cmon scientist dude eventually fucks his biography writer. One of the main hatred themes of spaceship is based on one gal hating the other because she killed her boyfriend. And it's quite obvious by then that the mystery woman is scientist dude's ex wife. Hundreds of pages are wasted on those badly written romance triangles.

Complaining it to Star Wars is pointless. It's not fairy tale scify, but it's also not hard scify. It's got mecha, doomsday weapons and alien planets. It's Star Trek.

>>9391992
Uh... What
That's not in there at all