Eh. It's already out in Europe.Look alive boys. Next book is out on 5Dec.
And heavier spoilers for end of book
When Duarte was "seeing" Holden's thoughts, he kept mentioning something about seeing traces of something else that was there. I wonder if they are hinting at a return of Proto-Miller
Well, the series is 3 trilogies, but the line between first and second trilogy were blurred.Book was not bad. Was not great. I really, really dislike large time jumps in a series.
Yep. Series is really writing itself into a bit of a corner. I am not sure how they could overcome the extra-dimensional aliens that wiped out the Protos, who have/had technology that might as well be magic.
So yeah, in most situations like this its going to be some human exceptionalism quality that wins the day. Which are almost always fucking retarded especially in the context of a super alien species that we can't even comprehend (the humans in the series can't even comprehend the Ring maker technology like you said) and that has been around for billions of years just chilling apparently.
Theorizing but I am going to bet that the extra-dimensional aliens will be something like the Photino Birds from the Xeelee Sequence (awesome series btw). So totally beyond comprehension that they aren't even considering their actions as lethal or bad merely correcting some issue that has nothing to do with the protos or humans. This will be understood somehow and we'll fuck off and realize how to not antagonize them. Milquetoast resolution.
I dunno that that is a fair criticism, given that you are complaining about the ending to an imaginary storyline that you just created ? ;p
I'd at least wait til they write it before complaining, heh.
Overall I thought this book was pretty good. Not the best of the series, but considerably better than the worst.