Quantum Night by Robert J. SawyerMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This was disappointing. I usually really like Sawyer's books, but this was not good. It was about a psychology professor who figures out how to diagnose someone as psychopathic, and with his utilitarian bent on things, he suggests all sorts of dramatic ways to apply what he knows. He finds himself missing 6 months of memories in his life, which concerns him, and he sets out to figure out why. He also reconnects with an old flame, a physicist, who is also studying psychopaths. Too much philosophizing and not enough of the plot just telling itself. What's usually good about good science fiction is that there isn't too much explaining the idea or the science, or the fantasy - there's just the story telling itself. This did not fit that bill at all. I'll wait for his next book, and hope it is better.
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