We've got volcanoes, and a scene that shows how societies were too top heavy, and another conversation which demonstrates that stone and iron tools are being used as well.There are lots of people in this book but no characters, they are all ciphers designed to voice the history lesson. The plot and characters are designed from the top down to present a slide show of all the current theories about why those cultures fell. The Best bits are the Historical fiction. Such a wonderful tool for the budding Historical Fiction writer! Maybe that's why Baxter has to provide us with such pompous Afterwards mentioning all the books he hasn't read.īronze Summer is an odd mash-up of Historical Fiction, Speculative Fiction and Fantasy. It also provides a good overview of the many factors that lead to the so called "Late Bronze Age Collapse", although at over 300 pages long, one can find exactly the same list of factors in under three paragraphs on Wikipedia (where Baxter obviously did most of his primary research). There are so many problems with this book, it's hard to find something nice to say, but after much thought I can let Good Readers know that this book has a really pretty cover. His vocabulary is mostly limited to technical language, he only uses the most obvious or clichéd of expressions and the characters are so two dimensional they feel like they a written by a 13 YO boy with an emotional IQ in the single digits. Stephen Baxter writes like the stereotypical engineer.
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