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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Blue Remembered Earth. Alastair Reynolds.
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 09:14:33 -0400
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On 9/4/24 1:56 AM, Titus G wrote:
> Blue Remembered Earth. Alastair Reynolds. 2012
> 
> Blue Remembered Earth is book one of the three part (so far), series
> Poseidon's Children. (Fantastic Fiction.)
> Recently I have been reading mainly general fiction with crime and some
> mediocre Fantasy so it was a treat to read of such a brilliant future so
> full of technical and social ideas ideas. I am surprised it has not been
> mentioned here?
> I just finished it today and am gobsmacked, not knowing where to begin,
> the brilliant plot, the diverse characters' interests and motivations,
> conflicts personal and political, the Evolvarium in the unrestricted
> area of Mars, the colour of quarks (BRG), the physical diversity of
> human shape, the neural augmentation that everyone has implanted
> eliminating all violence and used automatically for all communications
> (except talking), and more so I won't, (begin).
> Every one of the 800+ pages was enjoyable, a favourite this year.
> It appears that all three are standalone with number two, On the Steel
> Breeze, 2013, set  a thousand years after Blue Remembered Earth.
> .

I am so glad you liked this. I read this back in May, and didn't enjoy 
it as much as you did. The setting and science were great. My main 
problems were with the characters, but since the next one seems to share 
very few characters (if any) with this one, I plan to give it a try.

Tony