Sloggingly slow and lack of real storytelling. It is epic and the mind genious, but…. Feels like someone telling you about a story, in extreme detail, but not that you are reading the story itself. The entre first 2/3 is eventually shown as "the epic" to the last 1/3 of the book - seems like that edited and emotionalized version should have been what we are reading. Last bit was great, some tying together of the story. Many places the story can go and how New Earth could evolve. Overall brilliant mind and thoughts - only a bland unveiling