Has anyone in here read Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter?

[Occulus]

I just got done with it today. Good GOD... what a mind-bender. I can't even begin to describe this book. Superintelligent children, manipulated by the "downstreamers" (their future selves); genetically engineered, intelligent cephalopods (squid) trained to pilot spacecraft, multiple universes, catastrophic quantum cascades....

Stephen Baxter seems to be a pretty good writer; he kept me guessing right up until the last three or four pages, and then tied up all his little clues into one very nest package.

Here's a hint: it's all about the children.

I'm starting Manifold: Space tomorrow. Wish me luck.

[YankeyMCC]

1. I read the trilogy last year

I enjoyed it for the most part. You're right lots of big ideas and to be honest I'm not sure I "got it" all of course that's probably his intent. Even by the end of it all there's many unanswered questions, some things he should've delved deeper into I think and characters that were done well but he seemed to stop short of going all the way in developing them.

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. I liked it

Somehow I have not gotten around to the others.

[The Doctor.]

3. Read "Manifold: Space" some years ago.

You're in for some fun. (if you haven't finished already)

Baxter is a favorite author of mine because he truly does 'see the future'. Not specific events necessarily, but the projection of timescales humanity will have to begin thinking in in order to survive.

We're coming up on our first major lesson here on Earth.