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# Galileo's Dream: A Novel

**Brand:** kim stanley robinson
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## Customer Reviews

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    Flawed Humanity, Dark History, Deep Time & Limitless Space-scapes
  

*by L***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2018*

The thing about the book Galileo's Dream is that it continued to confirm one of the archetypal patterns of my own personal research and deep areas of interest... which I didn't know it would be as much of a match about going into it.It's a combination of a very grounded real and encouraging perspective on a flawed human being (it's a biography of sorts of G.Galileli) who had the internal drive to behave, observe and learn about reality as a scientist. In some ways it's an unapologetic treatise about the flawed nature of being a single-minded scientific outlier in a culture that didn't understand him; as well as the social order, family system and an economic under structure that thwarted his ability to thrive as a scientist. An era in which he found himself adrift and in pain and inflicting pain on others as well.In any case the main point I would make is back to the deeper level of personal research that I can only find to be enlightened through fiction: it's the pursuit of understanding how the multiple dimensions of reality can be construed when different authors take their approaches to help their readers ascertain an experience of the 4th, 5th, 6th all the way through the 10th or 11th dimension of the reality of the universe.Robinson does an amazing job of overlaying a time traveling multi-dimensional structure of reality that is an excellent guide to describing parallel universes and the ability to incrementally affect history through the flow of multiple patterns of existences. I would put that book on one end of the spectrum that I appreciated re: the multi-dimensional fictional descriptions of the universe and on the other end of the spectrum I will put the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Cixin Lui. He delivers much more hard science fiction ala Arthur C. Clark and others. He takes on the challenge of trying to represent how the human experience could be extended beyond our comprehension when engaged with extra-terrestrial, super intelligent life forms & the shift of time & space via travel of people into the solar system and the remainder of the universe through light speed. It's lays out a more clinical, natural potentiality of the discover-able nature of the cosmos unfurled & unparalleled in my experience. It's the standard bearer of how hard science fiction is being done in the 21st century.Thus those two books dovetail together nicely one being grounded in historical fiction with different threads of commentary on what it might mean to be in the multiple dimensions of the universe (Robinson). Cixin does a better job allowing the reader to get a deeper engagement with the potentialities of the other dimensions that have a more logical or super logical construct. KSR is more fantastical or even poetical in his imaginative kinds of devices i.e. the 10 dimensional manifold on manifolds as he calls it.

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    Needs an Editor
  

*by N***D on Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2015*

I was excited at the start of this novel that blends the fascinating story of Galileo with a hidden and enticing event in the far future on a moon of Jupiter. The Galileo pieces offer a window into history that appears to be accurate, yet the twist keeps returning. What is happening on Ganymede and who is this character by that name? What gave they learned though  passing of time? Who can be trusted and who is deceptive?The novel fades though. There are endless pages explaining ridiculous metaphysics. You slog through lengthy chapters several times about Galileo's pain, suffering, and later dementia. The great trial has moments of subtle brilliance marred by eye-rolling manipulation a and unexplained illogical moments where the authors seems to bid and smile at the reader, but the secret is opaque.I never felt satisfied with the conclusion on the moons and I thought the conclusion on Earth would never end. I can't recommend this novel until an editor hacks off at least 1/3 of it and sutures up the ending.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Heady mixture of Historical and Science Fiction
  

*by J***I on Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2020*

Kim Stanley Robinson has a way of taking unusual approaches to ideas that are already a bit of the beaten path.In this, we are given a ringside seat for the life of Galileo, as a scientist, and as a man. And just to make it interesting (snark), he is depicted as having interaction with future colonies upon the moons of Jupiter, which he discovered.Quite a romp, I recommend it highly.

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