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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (Review) In the Shadow of the Ship by Aliette de Bodard
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:10:26 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vhmdcb$gn32$1@dont-email.me>,
Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>James Nicoll wrote:
>
>> In the Shadow of the Ship by Aliette de Bodard
>> 
>> Starship Nightjar transcended its limitations to keep most of its 
>> crew alive and comfortable after the war. Best not to ask what that 
>> entailed.
>
>I will see if the library has this one. I have enjoyed some of her
>previous works in this universe.
>
>You mentioned the Franson novel of similar name. That was odd in that,
>to me anyway, it read like the sequel to some other book that doesn't
>exist. There was an entire prior plot of how the Earthman protagonist
>and his "flatcat" buddy, make their was to the worlds of the odd
>subspace connecting roads between worlds, the "waybeasts" that provide
>travel, and such.
>
 Franson wrote a second book in the series in 2018: Sphinx Daybreak.
I have not read it.  



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