Codgerspace (1992)

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Codgerspace is about this AI that decides to program other AIs to search for alien life, and then people get over the problems, and then the five retired main characters find an alien vessel, and then ..., and then ..... My main problem with the book comes down to the fact that it keeps throwing you major turns of plot that come out of nowhere right up to the end of the book. It felt like every major issue in the book was ended with a handwave. The setting was slightly interesting, if very lightly covered (and definitely wasn't the Commonwealth of Foster's other books) and some of the ideas intriguing, but it doesn't work well all together. ( )

This is not a particularly excelent book, but it's not a bad one, either. The plot gets off to an extremely slow start, sounding at first more like a history
text than anything else. Then it goes through several side characters before getting on to introducing the main plot of the book. The AI revolt plot that
was so carefully developed is then completely cast aside in favour of an alien artifact plot. It felt somewhat abrupt to me. However, the writing is good,
the characters are okay, and the story is interesting. While it's not all that good of a book, it's not bad, either. ( )

Fast fun and funny read.