Review: Teranesia

Teranesia by Greg Egan
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I borrowed this book from Jonathan's friend, Gavin. He described it as a "biology mystery."

This book started out so promising. I love the references to a lot of phenomena known in biology with runaway evolution seemingly happening in an isolated region of Indonesia. I thought the overall concepts were very intriguing and believable enough. It was really heading to a four-star review.

But oh man, the ending. I just couldn't take it seriously. Everything up until that point felt like interesting science fiction. Then humans got involved, and realism seemed to go out the window. It also felt super rushed towards the end as well.

All that said, I may be checking out more books by Greg Egan. The beginning (and really, most of the book) was so promising, that I am interested to see what else he has written. It's probably too much to hope for more "biology mysteries," but maybe there are others out there!

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