I can't believe it got such good reviews in the press and by readers. It's so boring that I was tediously trying to read through the second 100 pages, and stopped all together midway in the book. I think a good word to describe the book would be tedium. Robinson also gets too melodramatic with the characters. I can't stand any of them. This book is HIGHLY overrated and the only sci-fi book I couldn't finish, as much as I tried over half a year.