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Definitely one of the weaker points of the book in my view. The characters were distinct but generally sort of iterative of the others in their respective groups as well.
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I am with you there @Apocryphal I feel like my expectations for worldbuilding in SF to be pretty low so this was not too bad relatively speaking. 400 years is a LONG time though and it was hard to tell how much change there was. But then, with a sma…
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I don't really have a level of expertise or understanding to comment much on the accuracy of the "Russianness" of the cultures. They did seem a little bit forced, but then, I wasn't expecting Tolstoy either. I thought that the behaviour o…
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I loved that it was left somewhat abiguous. Very refreshing actually. I am unsure if the characters themselves knew exactly what was going on between them.
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I liked the setting quite a bit. Enjoyed the constant battle against an enemy that will never give up (radiation or time). It reminded me a little bit of Seveneves in that sense, in that things just keep getting worse, but Seveneves I enjoyed a lot …
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(Quote) I also liked the roll out of the two factions through the two narrators. The pacing of it was fine for me. Anya felt like someone just going through the motions after some trauma so maybe that had an impact on her not "getting it" …
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I enjoyed this one. I thought it was well paced and the plot kept me engaged for most of it. Prose was solid. Will I remember most of the details in a year? Hard to say. I appreciate books that have a creeping feeling of inevitable doom about them, …
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I like that choice as well.
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That's a great photo of him.
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I am thinking of City by Clifford Simak. I didn't see it on the reading list already.
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(Quote) For sure. It's just something I noticed and I like that about older books.
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That came along fast - time to think on this!
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She has a very good point. While I do enjoy Lord of the Rings, there is a LOT of tromping going on!
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What would an equivalent book look like today? Someone spends all day tracing cryptocurrency transactions to try and figure out which politician is being paid off by which foreign state?
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I don't have the book with me at the moment to pull out examples but the way they relate to one another seems more respectful (even when at times they are more direct!), but affection seems to be more acceptable as well. I think it's a good thing ov…
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Oh one thing I do like about writing in this time is that often the relationship between men is much more interesting. The way Davies and Carruthers spoke to one another and treated one another feels so much from a different time (because it was) bu…
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This was a case where my ignorance of the terrain probably played a huge role in why I didn't get the book. I pictured Anne of Green gables sand dunes and wondered what the big deal was.
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I felt like the biggest tension was whether Carruthers would be fired for missing too much work when he got home.
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I thought the baddies in the book were just too gentlemanly to really take the threat of invasion seriously, but I suspect that's more about me living in my time today, as it seemed that this was much more serious at the time. I will say that as a …
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Davies was the only guy I thought was interesting, but just because he was a weirdo, but also competent at something in some archaic way that I couldn't wrap my head around. I just finished the book and can't remember many of the other characters re…
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Didn't work for me. I know next to nothing about boats, or sailing, and so this was like a foreign language for large swaths of the book. Like they just sailed and then stopped and then sailed some more and then stopped and then wandered around on l…
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Struggled mightily with this one and I admit I was just skimming by the end. Did not enjoy this one at all. No interest in boats, the drama was not really dramatic, and the characters mostly pretty flat. I didn't care much what happened at the end.
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Managed to snag Riddle of the Sands for 0.99 on Kindle and my daughter is going to let me use it to read the book. Better get cracking! Had two audiobooks pop up on Libby from the library so I am trying to finish those before they need to get return…
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(Quote) Wasn't there an Outer Limits episode based on that idea with facehugger creatures that attack a crew that have crashed on a planet? The guy thinks he has outwitted the aliens but in the end it's all just in his head because the creatures act…
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Sounds great. I love those kind of dynamics in games.
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Never read any of Jeff Vandermeer's books but I had heard that series compared to this book. Not enough time...
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I still have yet to read that book. I watched the film and it was 'ok' but I have heard the book is better. MR Carey wrote the two books and then a third one one short stories set in the that world I believe. He has another series sttarting with the…
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True, but it felt like there was very little actual struggle with what she should do.
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Exactly that! Would be pretty fun.
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I don't have the RPG experience you all have (I have only played a number of play-by-post GURPS games over the years and some D&D with my son in more recent years) but this would make a pretty decent cooperative board game. A train that moves al…