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dustydigger
Posted 2016-05-06 12:29 PM (#13483 - in reply to #12239)
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Location: UK		I wont get it till the paperback comes out,Thomas - next April! lol. Ah well,something to look forward to!You're doing great with the P&M challenge,at the start of the year you werent sure if you could manage 10!
I finished off the Faded Sun trilogy with Kutath,which wasnt quite what I expected,as it was much more straightforward action than her books normally are. I also had a few doubts about the credibility of some of the premises of the story. But even lesser books by Cherryh are great reads.
Next up was Joan D Vinge's Snow Queen,and I wasnt too keen. Once again there were some improbable plot areas,the style was too wordy and overdetailed,so the story was slowed down,I didnt much like the characters(the heroine was too beautiful,sweet angelic to be true!) and it was all a bit too romancey and more on the fantasy side despite a lot of SF trappings.Dont know why it won the Hugo and Locus,and was nominated for the Nebula,and beat books like Benford's Timescape.Niven's Ringworld Engineers and Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer.it probably seemed fresh and original back in 1980,and imitations have blunted its effect now. We see this again and again.


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