Hong’s Cave

This SF novel by Stel Pavlou was an interesting mixture of recent developments in science and technology, and somewhat sweeping overview of mythologies. I thought the beginning was very interesting and the book was able to hold onto my attention till the end.

However, I thought many of the problem solving was done rather unrealistically (i.e., not believable), and although the story involved quite a bit of characters, I thought there was hardly any difference among them (i.e., any dialog from one character could have been said by others).

However, the author did accomplish a tremendous job of collecting and stitching together a vast amount of information. Maybe it involved too much of it to be, what can I say, refined. I often felt that the story was being pushed forward too hastily.

I really liked the possibility of the premise. Trying to put everything together within the two week period was maybe too much (not so for Hollywood, though).