What a Man book. The characters and plot were so full of testosterone and male chauvinism that sometimes it was very difficult not to roll my eyes. Don't get me wrong - there's a place for that just the same as there's a place in this world for Chic Lit, but apparently I wasn't expecting it. I picked this book up because it said "Hugo" on it (though not, it turns out, for this particular book - just for the author) and I'll read pretty much anything that's won a Hugo.



For all the overwhelming man-focus, I did enjoy the story. The premise - everyone from all of human history being resurrected along the shores of one apparently endless river - was fascinating, and Farmer's ideas on how humanity would cope/acquit themselves in such a situation are quite intriguing, probably accurate, and for that, a little depressing. The constant warring, fighting, struggling for power, followed inevitably by death and resurrection got a little tedious, but upon reading the conclusion, I'm much intrigued to find out what happens next.