Rating: 
Summary: Space Opera in the grand tradition
Review: This is as good as science fiction gets, in my experience at least. BUT bear in mind that The Depths of Time is the first volume of a trilogy. The entire arc of the story encompasses *all three volumes*, a total of something like 1,300 pages. Yes, the first volume leaves large unresolved plot elements. It had to! I had all three books at hand when I started reading this first one in the series. Finished this one, read the second one, and now am half way through the third. Good all the way, and I hope well resolved in the next couple of hundred pages.The trilogy has several lines of science (ecology, space travel, wormhole time travel, artificial intelligence, and more) and social science. Characters develop and are revealed over the course of the series. Well crafted, very entertaining, and a good balance of detail (for example on spacecraft landing procedures) and of prudent omission of details where the "science" simply has to be taken as a given.
Rating:
Summary: Space Opera in the grand tradition
Review: This is as good as science fiction gets, in my experience at least. BUT bear in mind that The Depths of Time is the first volume of a trilogy. The entire arc of the story encompasses *all three volumes*, a total of something like 1,300 pages. Yes, the first volume leaves large unresolved plot elements. It had to! I had all three books at hand when I started reading this first one in the series. Finished this one, read the second one, and now am half way through the third. Good all the way, and I hope well resolved in the next couple of hundred pages. The trilogy has several lines of science (ecology, space travel, wormhole time travel, artificial intelligence, and more) and social science. Characters develop and are revealed over the course of the series. Well crafted, very entertaining, and a good balance of detail (for example on spacecraft landing procedures) and of prudent omission of details where the "science" simply has to be taken as a given.
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