Review: Readable but....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2013
I bought this after reading the first volume and while finding it readable, I cannot rate it as highly as I had hoped.  The author sees this work as cosmic satire, working in Christian theology, Greek gods, artificial intelligence, and military conflict. There is an interesting core having to do with the conflict between species preservation and species evolution. The depiction of a family of Christian fundamentalist space pioneers is well done and filled with little ironies.The downside is a confusing story. The confusion lies in creating a world without rules.  The author has created a world where every man-made object can think and act, where time can be manipulated, where telepathic control of others is possible, and where new technologies plop into the story from nowhere. I prefer a story where the author has imagined a different world which operates by different rules which nonetheless form a dysfunctional system that makes its own sense.  Satire should not be a license for confusion.That said, the author is a brilliant writer with flashes of profound insight expressed in an interesting way.