Rating: 
Summary: Clio Finn is a Dive Pilot and a Star that shines on Earth
Review: Kay Kenyon is absolutely amazing. This story about a Dive Pilot named Clio Finn and her adventures in Space/Time Travel kept my face buried in this book from start to end with very few breaks. All good authors have strong points in their writing which breaks down into 3 or 4 different styles of writing. You get some that are proficient in one and sometimes two, Kay Kenyon is a true marvel as she excels in all ways and in my opinion is one of the finest writers whose work I have had the pleasure to read in a long time.
Rating: 
Summary: Impressive Debut Novel
Review: Kay Kenyon's debut novel "Seeds of Time" is an impressive effort. At 513 pages, it develops a story of epic proportions.
Seeds of Time is set in a bleak future. The earth is dying from pollution and an elite corps of time travelers is sent into the past to find plants that can thrive on the poisoned earth. The near death of the earth has spawned serious illness, eco-terrorism, massive crime and a repressive government.
The story centers around Clio Finn, a dive pilot. In a world where time travel is used to resolve the difficulty of travel to distant planets (you just 'dive' through time until the rotation of the galaxy places your destination in close proximity) dive pilots are a rare breed -- a small percentage of the population who can stay awake during dive to pilot the ships. As a dive pilot, Clio's questionable past and current indescretions are overlooked.
All previous missions have failed and the earth is desperate and running out of time. Very early in "The Seeds of Time" Clio's team finds a planet covered in lush, hardy vegetation that could be the salvation of Earth or could be its undoing!
The rest of "The Seeds of Time" is Clio's adventure as the discovery of this planet plays out. This plot is full of stunning twists and turns -- most of the completely unexpected and I don't want to give them away.
The book is full of people and things that are not what they appear to be. And Kay Kenyon does a great job of exploring both time travel and alternate realities without getting bogged down in the science. The characters are complex, sometimes sympathetic and always believable.
Kenyon leaves a few loose ends, but that's hardly a major fault for a first novel of this magnitude. This was the first book I've read in a long time that I didn't want to put down.
Read it and enjoy!
Rating:
Summary: Make my cold worthwhile
Review: Lieing around, sick as a dog (does the whole world have the flu this month?), I actually started to be thankful for having enough downtime to go through this book, almost in one sitting. The twists and turns made this anything but the usual time travel stuff I try to avoid. Decent depth to the characters, constant action, and enough surprises to make it very hard to put down. So kick back and read it - worth the time you'll spend. WDP
Rating: 
Summary: A disappointing environmental activist saga
Review: Ms. Kenyon caricatures the current world environmental crisis by creating a canvas in which plants are dying off due to man's years of mistreatment of his home, good old mother earth. To solve the problem, the government and its co-conspirator companies hatch a scheme which takes advantage of a newly discovered paradigm that allows time travel. Faster-than-light travel remains prohibited under Einstein's laws of physics. However, the time travel mechanism allows crews of these ships to plunge backward in time by hundreds of millions of years. Since the galaxy revolves, time travel allows the crews to visit other places in the galaxy, but at different times in the past. The quest is for a variety of plant life that will survive earth's high UV exposure and pollution, and allow life on the planet to continue. The story is crammed with plot holes. SF should have some semblance of logic. For instance, the technology currently exists to deal with depletion of the ozone layer, UV irradiation, and even atmospheric pollution. The primative recombinant DNA technology that we currently possess allows us to drastically alter the characteristics of both plants and animals. Certainly any society that has embarked on time travel in craft costing $300 billion each would deal with these issues more straightfordly! Segments of good writing are interspersed with plot twists that make no sense. Characters are often irrational. For instance, a subgroup of people on a ground team to a planet that has promising plant life (400 million years in the past) decide to mutiny and remain, and force several unwilling crew members, including the heroine, to remain with them. Since genetics dictate that a herd size of at least 1,000 is needed to have the DNA diversity to start a self-sustaining colony, the insistence of the 4 rebels that the 4 loyalists remain with them to found a new world makes no sense. I could go on, but what's the point. Besides, I hate books that are such obvious vehicles to preach to us naughty boys and girls.
Rating:
Summary: Amazing First Book!
Review: Out of nowhere pops Kay Kenyon with a top shelf first book though with the imperfections of a first timer. It is so rare to find character development of this quality in a sci-fi novel. A woman as strong central characters is reminiscent of the Alien series. I liked this book so much I bought all her other books and every one is a gem. I recommend them all.
Rating:
Summary: Amazing First Book!
Review: Out of nowhere pops Kay Kenyon with a top shelf first book though with the imperfections of a first timer. It is so rare to find character development of this quality in a sci-fi novel. A woman as strong central characters is reminiscent of the Alien series. I liked this book so much I bought all her other books and every one is a gem. I recommend them all.
Rating:
Summary: Once you start this one, you won't want to stop ...
Review: Put some time aside, because once you start this novel, you won't want to stop. This is an great sci-fi action adventure with interesting characters. Although Clio does begin to feel a bit like Job at times, the author keeps you guessing as to how she will get out of yet another impossible situation. Good quick enjoyable
Rating:
Summary: Bleah.
Review: Reading the other reviews before paning this book, I realize I just must be getting jaded. Clio - the main character - didn't impress me as a strong character. The weird plot twists were just over the top. Everyone was so busy advancing their own agenda and lying to everyone else you just had no idea what was really going on. Except for the fact that there were good guys and bad guys. The good guys were on the side of right, and always lied for good purposes. The bad guys lied to advance their nefarious agendas. And this whole environmental apocalypse thing. Ho hum. _Sheep Look Up_ was sorta fun in that hysterical environmental sort of way. Having read that, _Seeds of Time_ fails to impress. And there are some fairly irrational plot twists to make the story - um - interesting (I found the whole bit rather annoying actually). Give this book a miss.
Rating:
Summary: Very great!!
Review: Starts out very predictable, but by the middle of the book, the plot has many twists and turns. I ended up not being able to put it down and even spent two days of my Florida vacation reading as fast as I could to find out what happens.
Rating: 
Summary: It had pretty good potential, but got messed up in places
Review: The good parts: 1. SF ideas: parallel universes approached not quite as usual and an interesting means of space travelling by time-travelling thus solving the eternal problem of FTL 2. The picture of a grim but not so impossible future with an ecologically devastasted Earth. I know, we've seen all this before, but it never fails to impress me, it's sooo possible... 3. The characters, most of them. Except of the fact that most of the good guys were women and most of the bad guys men. This is not very credible (and it's a woman saying this). The bad parts: 1. The fact that the book was basically split into two distinct parts: the first half and the second half. They were connected through the actions, but the characters are entirely different. Except for Clio and Harper Teeg (the bad guy) there was nobody from the first half of the book which appeared in the second. It was kind of difficult to get used to some people just to have them replaced afterwards by another ones. The ones in the second half of the book were better, though. 2. Too much sexuality! The beggining of the second half, the part in the quarries, rambled on and on about how Clio was forced to give sexual favours in order to survive. It may have been true, but I hate it when a SF book spends too much time on this. And what about her relationship with Hillis? I didn't get the point there. It never seemed real to me, and it seemed entirely pointless. What did it matter whether she loved him or not? It was not connected to the action in any way, it had no influence on it. 3. Harper Teeg: the main bad guy. I have always thought that as a writer, one should be able to create a credible negative character without making him mad. I mean, he could have had other reasons for his actions than his delusions of grandor and fixation with Clio (sex again...). Other than that, it was enjoyable reading.
| 
