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Deep, hypnotizing, grand.

Reminiscent of Clarke's 2001: The Space Odyssey and The Time Machine by Wells, and gives you as huge of an existential crisis as they do. I have not come across an interpretation of the creation of the universe, the multiverse, and the purpose of Man as ambitious as Baxter's, though. He had grand ideas. What if black holes, by their nature, were portals to universes close to ours? What if we could find out if these universes were similar to, or vastly different from ours?

I loved the exploration of humanity's response to knowing that the world that they know it might be coming to an end in a few hundred years. It was a nice apocalyptic aspect to the story. The predictability of human nature is a noticeable juxtaposition to the unknown and scary cosmic events that were happening around them.

Reading and then finishing the book felt like being plunged into a deep sea of water and then surfacing - everything is slow in the water and you can't see because it is murky, and then you burst into the bright light with some confusion, but mostly relief.