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I assumed it was a novel made from stitched together short stories, and was fine with that. If done well it can be very effective. It was also rather nice to end Helva's story at a logical place instead of the usual cliffhanger leading to book 2 of …
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As is typical, the author's own cultural assumptions are very visible because they are different from those currently accepted, so yes it showed, A modern author would have totally different blind spots that would be far less visible to us. Not that…
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Classic SF racism discussion couched in different terms. Far less heavy handed than aliens who are human looking except they are pitch black on one half of their bodies and snow white on the other and it it vitally important whether you are white on…
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Huh? Helva was a virgin in a titanium sphere, so 'maiden'. Case closed.
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I don't need any hard science in a book. I do need common sense, but then I love star wars so I'm not real consistent. I do really appreciate good hard science in a book - was a tech writer/illustrator for many years in extremely high tech fields, s…
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It's a McCaffrey book, it reads like one - over the years I have read enough of her work to tell. I have a slight problem with her writing style. She gets all excited about something and somehow jumps ahead without saying she is jumping ahead. I am …
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(Quote) :D
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(Quote) You got two days to read The Ship Who Sang, Njae! Can you do it? ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH? :D
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Finished it some time ago.
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(Quote) I read it once - it's interesting.
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(Quote) Thank you, Richard!
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(Quote) The Scooby-Do version? :D
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(Quote) For emphasis!
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if I were writing the story, Jonathan would have died by Dracula's Women, and Mina and Lucy would have beaten him alone, with the coaching of Van Helsing. The other men were merely sources of information. After defeating Dracula, they would have rea…
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OMG - the comparison to Perelandra - one of my all time favorites - is brilliant. I'd never seen it before, and the parallels are very close. Dracula was also not inherently supernatural, but became horribly corrupted - this is the wrongness I spoke…
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I am agreeing with both Richard and Apocryphal here. The religious trappings work here because religion is magic, and so is Dracula. Apocryphal's mention of Peter Watt's Blindsight as a modern vampire story is spot on - that book was terrifying, and…
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Scary? No. Creepy? Yes. Creepy is little things that are somehow 'wrong' and slowly build up overtime, and which throw off our innate mental footing. Dracula is very good at that. I also agree with Neil that the epistolary nature of the book prevent…
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(Quote) This was recommended by Albert Bailey, friend, plasma physicist, and frequent game design collaborator. He designed Lowell Was Right with me and said there were strong echoes of that game in the book.
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(Quote) https://www.amazon.com/Arabella-Mars-Adventures-Ashby-ebook/dp/B0CPWD6M9R/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Looks like a clockwork punk story, with elements of my Volant, In Harm's Way Napoleonic Naval, and Lowell Was Rig…
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Dracula is an old friend - I've read it five or six times now. I'm ready whenever...
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I've never read it, so probably not...
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IIRC it was the Brides of Dracula... ;)
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I didn't identify with anyone in the book. No one seemed real, just animatronic constructs designed to spew forth various positions. Obviously, I am utterly alone in this.
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I can't comment here. I felt I would rather read the back of a cereal box than the book and stopped after trudging half way.
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I got the Ulysses link, but not the Grouper link. Merou is a common enough last name that I have run into it before. I did not think of him as a viewpoint character, as I found it impossible to identify with him.
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I knew they were apes right away, and thought it was a bad frame story. I didn't read the book to the end so I did not know they were mentioned again.
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I wouldn't. I didn't like the heavy-handed allegorical nature of the book and only made it half way through. I had thought I had read it way back in the sixties as I remember buying it, but I don't think I did now, as nothing was familiar except thi…
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(Quote) MacAlpin became King of Dal Riada first, then the Picts, but he ruled as King of the Picts. Perhaps he was a scion of both royal families, and inherited the titles at different times. It's rather murky... (Quote) IKR? I too believe it to be…
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I read it several times, but the last was perhaps 20 years ago, so I would be up for it!
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(Quote) The Kingdom of Dal Riada and the Kingdom of the Picts united under Kenneth MacAlpin to form the Kingdom of Alba in the mid-800s, though Mac Alpin was still styled King of the Picts. MacAlpin then began the process of assimilating the other c…