![]() ![]() ![]() By the middle of the book, I was at least in cruise control and staying with it. I took an atropine injection in the thigh same as if I had been exposed to a nerve agent and kept reading. I almost invoked my 100-page rule because she took so long in developing the plot that I almost collapsed. And if this were a short story or even a novella, I may have liked, but this was just too much and drawn out too far. Her complicated and fully developed alien structures are first class science fiction. ![]() Cherryh is an exceptionally talented writer and her imagination and world building are on wonderful display. Cherryh's Hugo Award winning space opera novel about a far future Earth and its far flung colonial system and how the farthest out colonies go rogue and of the space station in the middle that tries to stay neutral but can’t and there are cutesy poo aliens who talk like intellectually challenged Ewoks who help out and then there are some assassin clones who have memory problems and then … and then. If an author takes a great idea and then adds five hundred pages to it, it may be too watered down.Ĭ.J. ![]() But if you were to take the glass of whiskey and mix it with a gallon of water, then you will likely not even taste the whiskey. If you take a glass of whiskey and take a sip and it is too strong, add some water or ice and it makes it more enjoyable. ![]()
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