Reviews for Boy of Their Dreams Teacher's Resource Guide

The average rating for Boy of Their Dreams Teacher's Resource Guide based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-03 00:00:00 Gerald Parks My 1999 review, published somewhere as, Interesting backstory, but a slow, bloated novel. The best thing about Gravity Dreams is the backstory. Set 5,000 years from now, a post-collapse Earth supports static "mite" cultures, secretly dominated by the spacegoing nanotech Rykasha "demons". Modesitt's themes include ecology, personal responsibility; and passive, fatalistic ("eastern") vs. dynamic ("western") culture. A nice setup, but flabby execution: Gravity Dreams starts out so slowly that I almost gave up (and kinda wish I had). About 75 pages in ("Sciamachy"), the pace picks up, but once the protag enters starpilot flight school... well, I learned far more about needleship [note 1] flight training than I'd *ever* want to know. "It's a sin to waste the reader's time" -- L. Niven. Gravity Dreams would have made a nice novella, but there just isn't enough substance here to fill 400 pages. For diehard Modesitt fans only -- and they'll want to skim. Modesitt's previous five SF outings -- Parafaith War, Ecolitan Enigma, Adiamante, Of Tangible Ghosts & Ghosts of the Revelator (reviewed, and recommended, at site below) -- were all good to excellent, so I can forgive one clunker. If you haven't tried Modesitt's SF, don't start with Gravity Dreams! ___________ (1) -- one nice touch is a needleship named "Costigan". Newbies will need to look it up....

Review # 2 was written on 2013-06-20 00:00:00 Jeremy Johnson This has got to be one of my favorite books of all time. Imagine a society which has access to nano-technology. You think you can right? Well Modesitt offers a view of one possible way that society may structure itself through the eyes of one who has gone from being an unmodified human to one of the demons with nano-tech flowing in his veins. The insights offered as to "honesty" and "truth" to oneself and society are excellent and really could benefit people in even our day and age. I probably re-read this book every 3 or 4 months it is so exceedingly awesome. Also I would give it more stars if there was some way to tag it that way, a category which is "beyond awesome" is what I would want to see.