I finished reading 2312 by Stanley Robinson. 8/10.
A great vision of a future where humanity is colonizing the solar system by terraforming the planets, certain moons, and hollowing out large asteroids. The, 30km long, 2 km across hollowed out rotating asteroids are used to preserve bio diversity and function as cruise liners forming a transportation network between worlds. In this universe the main characters unravel a plot supposed orchestrated by qubes (quantum brains) that are starting to exhibit unexpected behaviour.
The story flows well and does a great job at revealing an interesting vision of the future in great detail, including the struggles with prolonging life, self modifications, the divide between spacers and those left behind on earth, and emerging struggles between the planetary systems for resources. The book can be a bit pretentious at some points. Just as movies have cliches, in sci-fi books the main characters listen to classical music and use words I need a dictionary for. It's also a bit cynical in how it puts down democracy, due process, courts of law, concluding earth would be better off being ruled by an elite class of spacers.
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