Greg Bear is overrated. I found Blood Music to be boring as hell past the middle of the book, Darwin's Radio was simply disgusting, [id:191 Eon] was boring, etc. Moving Mars is the only example of a good book by Bear that I can think of at the moment.

This book is no exception. I can't think of anything good to say about it. The whole premise is absurd for a start. The only thing that could possibly be more absurd is the ending of the book, which surpasses anything I have ever read before in pure unbelievability. The characters are so predictable that it's not even funny. And to top it off, there are two, count 'em, two, instances of aliens described as "elongated" and "slender". If there's anything more cliched than that, I don't want to know about it.