Strata

Terry Pratchett

Having read it

★★★☆☆

It started well and ended well but I wasn’t too sure about the middle bits despite good ideas and humour throughout and even prescience about many an attitude and approach in today’s world!

A good passage

It was far better to send a man into space than a machine. In the complete unknown, a man could still evaluate and decide. Machines were fine for routine, but they flipped when presented with the unforeseen.
It was cheap to send a machine because it did not breathe and it sent its information back alone.
Whereas a man breathed, all the time. This was expensive.
But it was very cheap to send a man if you did not arrange to bring him back.