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I think the second eversion above is more like what Reynolds described, with areas of smooth and spiky skin interspersed. I got what he was doing - turning the story inside out in a series of inversions - like the alien ship had everted. I found it …
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Well I, for one, enjoyed our cast of characters. As iterations went on, approaching reality, they became more and more complex, which was fun.
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I felt it was no problem. Silas was the procrastinator supreme - pushed it to the last second, but pulled it all together in time, like pulling an all nighter to finish a project you've been supposed to be working on for weeks. We've all been there …
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I figured out where the ship was, and who Silas was by the second iteration - the Patagonia one. It didn't harm the narrative for me. I was pulling for ol' Silas.
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It worked well for me. Groundhog Day is like the grandfather of this style. I found it very entertaining and interesting.
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I am fine with either. I believe I have read something by A. A. Attanasio - the name is familiar anyway, but a look at Radix tells me it wasn't that. I have not read anything by Chandrasekera.
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I have finished!
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(Quote) Hehehehehe!
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(Quote) Note to self: "Remember to update list next weekend." (Skip to weekend) "Aha! I should remember to do this next weekend..." (Rinse...Repeat)
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(Quote) Apres moi, le deluge... B)
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Like many of my campaigns it would center on sapient slavery, so no different than what I do.
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Looks like now to me.
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The only true hard SF is one minute into the future. Knowing many hackers as I do, the only thing different was the speed with which they did things. The end result is the same. They were also taking over systems that barely had any security at all,…
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I don't see it as either enjoyable or off-putting. It was a fact of existence, and needed to be dealt with. I do believe that all violence is coercion, and that use of coercion negates the impropriety of coercion being used against one, using coerci…
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I did not link the Murderbot's behavior with autism, although I think you are right. I certainly noticed the asexual/aromantic aspects - they were very up front. Yes they affected the story, but not for the worse. Most of the humans depicted in the…
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Absolutely agree with that reading! Slavery is slavery. If a thinking being is coerced into service, it is slavery, whether or not the being knows it. There is no moral or ethical difference between enslaving humans or non-humans for me. I loved tha…
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I totally enjoyed the novellas! Very good stories with interesting characters in interesting situations. I will definitely be reading more! The development of the main character is fascinating for me.
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(Quote) Well, then! High time we did so!
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I'm thinking Jack Vance's Emphyrio
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Should have jumped to him losing his kingship and gone forward from there, bringing in flashbacks as needed.
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I don't play well with genres - or lit crit - so I shall stay in the shallow end of the pool with the other kids... ;)
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I think Barner is exactly right on one thing - this book desperately needed an editor, one with a sharp scalpel and the good of the story at heart. There are the bones of something very cool here, but after Watership Down, they let Adams have his wa…
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I think if you cut out the middle and jump directly to the end the book would have been better for it. Like the guy that stitched the three 'Hobbit' movies together into two movies and vastly improved it all. Remembering of course that Jackson was f…
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(Quote) Welcome in Joel! I've enjoyed your participation in the Discord server - and I too am no lit guru! :D
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(Quote) I lost any enthusiasm I had to begin with - which was ebbing anyway - when I hit that 5 year leap after the battle. From then on it was a grind.
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You may be right, Richard. Many things of that time which I used to enjoy seem shallow and strident to me now.
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I loved Watership Down, and read and enjoyed that, Shardik, The Plague Dogs, and Maia long ago. I remembered liking Shardik, but apparently my tastes have changed now that I am old and useless, and I doubt I could sustain any enthusiasm.
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The Tuginda was the only character I empathized with at all, and she was dealt with early. Everyone else was a user or bring used.
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Again, my experiences mirror those of Richard. Reading the book got very fatiguing, and I was plowing my way through it many times. I did not enjoy his writing style, and thought his plotting was meh.
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Richard nails it. Adams' religion is for idiots or con men. It is a bunch of people interpreting the GM's dice rolls.