![]() ![]() The main story starts in the Jurassic period. Spoiler warning: I am going to talk about some details that might be considered spoilers, but I don’t think they will take away anything from the enjoyment of the book at all, but rather, I think they might help inspire you to pick it up and read it yourself. There is a lot of speculation on what might have happened, and what might happen in the future, but it is mostly plausible at a minimum, often surprising or startling, and sometimes outright stunning. ![]() I think they are missing the point. Baxter is fully aware of the fact that he sometimes picked one of several conflicting scientific theories or premises and ran with it. They ridiculed his science, the plausibility of the events and the structure and approach of the book. Some reviewers of one star on Amazon blasted Baxter for this book. Evolution is not really a novel, but rather speculative natural history fiction. The only motivator that keeps turning the pages of Evolution is an intense interest in the subject of the book. A novel has a protagonist, a theme, and a plot that creates suspense which keeps the reader turning the pages. Critics have blasted it as a series of short stories, loosely connected. Reading Evolution was time extremely well spent, I learned immeasurably from it, and I am not yet done learning.Įvolution, while it is termed a novel, is not really a novel. Evolution is a novel of over 640 pages that was not an easy read, but superbly inspiring and thought-provoking. ![]()
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