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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Blue Remembered Earth. Alastair Reynolds.
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:52:42 +1200
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On 5/09/24 01:14, Tony Nance wrote:
> On 9/4/24 1:56 AM, Titus G wrote:
>> Blue Remembered Earth. Alastair Reynolds. 2012
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> 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.

I am guessing the characters were too shallow for you or maybe you did
not like Geoffrey, the simple elephant man protagonist? The cousins were
unusual but while the plot was unravelling, I was more interested in the
setting and 'science'. (The fantasy book read before this, The House in
the Cerulean Sea, was 95% relationships so perhaps I was glad to escape
that atmosphere.)