I enjoyed the early sections of the book, which dealt with the author's early life in Ireland and then her move to Canada. Her bloodline is very blue, she was orphaned at an early age and instructed by Druids. She encountered misogyny in her Canadian research posts, even though she was highly intelligent.
The latter part of the book, which dealt specifically with trees, climatr change etc did not interest me. I skimmed it.
I enjoyed the 1st half of the book. It was a straightforward SF story that included murder and a deadly meteor heading towards an earth that had already been devastated by a nuclear war, which destroyed all technology. Only non technological Mennonites in the Waterloo area seemed to have survived. A group of criminal and scientists woke up to this scenario, after having been frozen for hundreds of years, with their brains uploaded into a quantum computer that had provided them with a simulated reality. They were soon approached by the hologram of a Martian, the result of earth’s colonization of Mars.
I lost interest in the story when it was revealed that the Martian had been assessing the revived astronauts and convicts to see if they were suitable for Martian society. What a cliche! Of course, they weren’t good enough for living with the Martians, and the people who chose to go to Mars were kindly given a separate living dome. Basically, the story became a shallow sociological and ethical treatise and I began noticing plot holes. How could an advanced society not have noticed a huge rock heading towards earth much earlier? (The author says they weren’t looking in that direction. Sheesh.) How in the world can you transfer consciousness into a computer? What even is consciousness? Boring!
