Millennium

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Summary: Spare me this future!
Review: This story skips the reader to the end of the third millennium. What a sight! One that makes almost no sense. Although replicant bodies can be quickly manufactured to replace the accident victims snatched from death, although human organs can be readily replaced by mechanical parts, although robots can possess big computer brains used to rule mankind-it is still necessary to stage cumbersome time-gate flights to the past to acquire humans for the peopling of a new planet. When these future time travelers leave behind some weapons they must turn heaven and hell upside down to get them back. I must admit that like the rest of mankind I don't understand the niceties of time travel but I'm afraid the reader must look elsewhere to solve these riddles. It seems Varley started to write a dystopian ending for mankind by showing us slews of Heaven's Gate type suicides. Then perhaps his film director suggested the rather futile, last minute, happy ending rescue of mankind-one that just left me hanging.

Rating:
Summary: Spare me this future!
Review: This story skips the reader to the end of the third millennium. What a sight! One that makes almost no sense. Although replicant bodies can be quickly manufactured to replace the accident victims snatched from death, although human organs can be readily replaced by mechanical parts, although robots can possess big computer brains used to rule mankind-it is still necessary to stage cumbersome time-gate flights to the past to acquire humans for the peopling of a new planet. When these future time travelers leave behind some weapons they must turn heaven and hell upside down to get them back. I must admit that like the rest of mankind I don't understand the niceties of time travel but I'm afraid the reader must look elsewhere to solve these riddles. It seems Varley started to write a dystopian ending for mankind by showing us slews of Heaven's Gate type suicides. Then perhaps his film director suggested the rather futile, last minute, happy ending rescue of mankind-one that just left me hanging.