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Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Blue Remembered Earth. Alastair Reynolds. Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 17:19:40 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: <vbfrld$v196$1@dont-email.me> References: <vb8sps$3nglg$1@dont-email.me> <vb9mfp$3rkr5$1@dont-email.me> <vbduaa$mgqt$5@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 23:19:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="565b5619e0c23d685688d766cc0a8702"; logging-data="1017126"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX199JiY463lkcQRwfFKphtNbJNcnGWzhWPE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:PhmbETmitbl5fUJHLeKRuBmUZcc= In-Reply-To: <vbduaa$mgqt$5@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2428 On 9/5/24 11:52 PM, Titus G wrote: > 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 > snip >> >> 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 You have indeed guessed correctly - shallow as a contact lens case. I think, except for Geoffrey, every major character (and many minor characters) were some combination of self-absorbed, self-righteous, impulsive, unsympathetic, True Believer jerks. Geoffrey was fine, though he tends to accept/agree that every negative thing in the universe is his fault. but while the plot was unravelling, I was more interested in the > setting and 'science'. Agreed - the setting and the science were wonderful. - Tony (The fantasy book read before this, The House in > the Cerulean Sea, was 95% relationships so perhaps I was glad to escape > that atmosphere.)