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Title: Cradle: A Novel by Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee ISBN: 0-446-51379-2 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.28 (29 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not one of Clarke's best works...
Comment: Despite what many of the other reviewers said, I don't think Gentry Lee was the reason this book wasn't very good. He worked with Clarke on most of the Rama series, too, and those were some of the best books I've ever read. It seems to me that this book was a fluke. It was full of factual errors, which surprised me, since I've never found errors in any of Clarke's other works. This novel was basically a soap opera.
Rating: 2
Summary: Oddly Disappointing
Comment: Years ago I eagerly purchased a copy of CRADLE by Arthur C. Clark and Gentry Lee. I had really enjoyed the books Clarke wrote just before CRADLE. I also enjoyed the books written later. But somehow I didn't get around to reading CRADLE until now. I must say that I was disappointed. I had been expecting Clarke's style as I had read in such books as THE HAMMER OF GOD and GHOST FROM THE GRAND BANKS. But the Clarke-Gentry mix just didn't do it for me.
The book could be easily described as RAMA doing the work of the Overlords from CHILDHOOD'S END. An unmanned probe comes to Earth to elevate the human species and restore a number of others. This plan is stumbled across by a reporter looking into the alleged disappearance of a secret Navy missile. The probe is making a journey to a dozen planet. At each planet it will assemble life forms based on specimens collected on an earlier visit. In CRADLE, a couple of humans get a chance to tell the aliens that we don't want humans to be elevated. That's pretty much it.
I had a hard time getting through this book. I normally fly through Clarke's books but this one was just bogged down in unnecessary details. This book also contained a large number of sexual scenes that I have to assume were the work of Lee as I have not encountered their like in Clarke's work. I really cannot recommend this book to anyone, so if you haven't read it and were considering it I have to give you fair warning.
Rating: 1
Summary: Like Tom Swift with [intercourse] thrown in
Comment: Weirdly juvenile, sitcom-like 'humor', incoherent plot, conversations, descriptions - I kept thinking, "Maybe it's some kind of parody," but in the end I decided it was just plain bad.
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Title: The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0743479750 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Clarke ISBN: 0743459024 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0345322401 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Rama Revealed (Bantam Spectra Book) by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0553569473 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0446677949 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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