Matthew Henry John Bartlett

I have recently finished Greg Egan’s sci-fi novel Diaspora, which was recommended to me by Bryan T. I enjoyed it, though felt unsatisfied by the ending. Like Arthur C Clarke’s Rama series, it ends by revealing ‘the meaning of life’, which turns out to be trite and uninspiring. Reading it I realised that I read sci-fi looking for something completely different than what I look for in other novels. In regular fiction I want plot, interesting characters, perhaps a glimpse of a better way for me to live. In sci-fi, I want to marvel, to feel the ‘sense of wonder’, vast worlds of imaginative creation & history independent of our own.