Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley RobinsonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Ambitious, fantastically researched, vibrant, and intense, Galileo's Dream focuses almost entirely on The Galileo in his time, his life, all his science, discoveries, and especially the decision that he's most well known for. The battle with the church to stand by the truth of science.
His sacrifice is very well known, of course, this novelization of it is pretty damn fantastic. Kim Stanley Robinson just has that going.
What makes this book particularly interesting is the "dream" which is, in fact, a hard SF extravaganza including time-travel, teleportation, a grand dark age of science and quantum entanglement and foresight that really messes with Galileo on a level near to what happened to him in normal history.
Interesting stuff!
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