(Holy crap, has it really taken me three weeks to get this far? Gah!)
I am a little more than halfway through this book and questions I’ve had since the beginning are starting to be answered. Well, sort of, one of the characters has literally come up with a “Theory of Everything” that sounds plausible–at least in the universe of this novel. I finally have a pretty good idea why Prospero, Caliban, Setebos, the Greek Gods and heroes, and now Miranda are running around. I know what the bad guy is up to (though I don’t have a clue how they’re going to stop him).
Interesting reading this last week. The language got a little hairy though when it started talking about nano-enhanced DNA and quantum teleportation and multiple universes. I could follow the physics in Timeline* all right, but I had to reread some of this stuff just to figure out what they were talking about.
I’ve decided that there are two kinds of characters in this book, the ones who have a clue and ones who exist to have stuff done to them by the ones who have a clue and to be explained to. It gets a little irritating after a while, but this book is still so damn intriguing.
*P.S. They didn’t use fire arrows in the Middle Ages. That’s a Hollywood anachronism. Looks good on camera, though.