Rafael L’s Reviews > Galaxies Like Grains of Sand > Status Update

It has become a tiresome reading, Aldiss seems to lack basic knowledge in linguistics, geology. Confuses terms, physiology vs anatomy. Uses pseudoscientific babble such as the current use of 'quantum' in from of everything. examples: paraevolution, just say evolution for Christ's sake. His knowledge in biology or lack of it is clear, but this might be explained by the status of biology at the time of publication.

The timeline of events doesn't appear logical given the timespan of 40 million years, i.e. people speaking Portuguese creole in the Cape Verde islands 40 million of years after a nuclear catastrophe. The book is plagued with dozens of similar plot holes.
The book at this point is a caricature of the UK and its former colonies during the 1950's, and the ever-present 'nuclear' threat. It gets old.

Though written in 1959, it doesn't feel outdated. Some concepts might raise an eyebrow, such as robots talking among themselves, instead of using a more efficient method of communication, but this cannot be judge as wrong given that there is not enough background information.
Aldiss introduces an interesting point about logic and intelligence in Who can Replace Man?