Felicia's Reviews > The Clockwork Rocket

Super conflicted about this book. I believe if I could remember more of my college physics I would REALLY love this book. Because the whole premise is that we're on a made-up world with weird aliens whose world is ruled by TOTALLY made-up physics. There is a TON of exposition about how the physics works which made it feel like a pseudo textbook in a way, did you ever read Sophie's World? Kind of like that, but not as accessible. Because in Sophie's World you had the context of understanding more as a basis to build on. This book requires you to understand basic physics in order to understand how it is NOT like that on this world.

I think there should have been a character who was new to the world and needed to be explained to IN COMPARISON to his/her world, that way I could have gotten on board more.

That said, it was an interesting read with an interesting female alien protagonist. Some complex social and political subjects are dealt with very deftly. Not having read other books by this author it definitely makes me want to pick up something else he's written, maybe with less homework involved :)