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I am still in the middle of reading this book called "2312" By Kim Stanely Robinson. This book is about a girl named Swan Er Hong who has to face some challenges after her grandmother that everyone in the galaxy knew had died. She has decided to carry out the plans that her grandmother had made to improve the other planets such as Saturn, and our Earth. But she faces some challenges throughout the way.

After Swan's Grandmother died, it was as if every part of all the people that she knew died as well, because her death wasn't an expected death. And there were so many unfinished plans that she had created but could not finish. Meanwhile everyone is freaking out because they don't know what to do with her unfinished plans. But luckily Swan's grandmother leaves a message for the most important people in her life and they transfer the information into to their qubes. And you guys may be wondering well...., what is a qube? A qube, as described in the story, is an electronic device that is installed in your brain almost like a computer and it holds all of your information of your life, and helps you get other information about everything. It even takes mental pictures of things to store inside your memory! If I were the reader of this blog post I'd probably be thinking wow it's better than Google! But back to the story, Swan get's a message from her grandmother to be transferred into her qube and that gives her a little hint about what she should be doing.

One of Swan's troubles that she has to face is that she is very confused as to what exactly her grandmother wants her to do. From what her grandmother's close friend tell her, the most that she could help do is make a new plan for earth and set up how their architectural system will turn out. Since this is the future, she currently lives on another planet that we know of which is called Mercury. And in the book since it is the future, there aren't as many people living on earth as there used to be about a thousand years ago. This is because the Earth has changed and had their water levels rise, forcing the people that live there to have to walk on boardwalks or cat walks most of the time. The way it looks is kind of how Venice look nowadays.

In a way, I kind of feel like this book is almost a mixture between a mystery genre, and a science fiction genre.  I say that because so far throughout the book, You are always anticipating what will happen next, and what the next clue that you'll find will be. It makes you wonder how exactly did Swan's grandmother die? And it makes me wonder why didn't her grandmother finish recreating Saturn or reconstructing our Earth's architecture a long time ago? If Swan is just starting to figure out that she is now going to have to take the main role that her grandmother had, then she has to work twice as hard to   fulfill what her expectations of the new planets will be. And I'm just going to have to keep reading my book to figure out what other big challenges she faces.