40 Signs of Rain

Last fall I picked up a few books by Kim Stanley Robinson to help prepare for Capclave. I tried to read 40 Signs of Rain several times and got bogged down every time. Nothing really happens in most of the book, it's mainly descriptions of how science works and how scientists think and descriptions of things. It doesn't really work as a story.

I finally managed to get through it this week - man that was a chore and a half. There are some lovely passages but then back to explaining what an algorithm is or whatever. FInally some stuff happens and then the book just stops. There is no ending, just no more book and the first little bit of the next book to entire you to buy that one. As if!!