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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: On the Steel Breeze. Alastair Reynolds.
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 17:42:43 +1300
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On 9/09/24 14:07, Tony Nance wrote:
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>>>>> On 9/4/24 1:56 AM, Titus G wrote:
>>>>>> Blue Remembered Earth. Alastair Reynolds. 2012
>>>> snip
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 over halfway through the next one, On the Steel Breeze. Events and
science still outweigh characterisation. Whoops! They are mainly still
around but not Geoffrey, nor the cousins and some play minimal roles.
One is over three hundred and another is two hundred and forty but
Geoffrey did not take prolongation treatment. Even grandma Eunice is
sort of there but in a robotic format with simulated mind. Following
your criticism regarding the richness of the characters, I have paid
more attention to this aspect and really couldn't tell anyone anything
much about them but this is not detracting from my enjoyment of the book
for the same reasons as Blue Remembered Earth even without the novelty.
I could probably describe characters from Garry Disher's pot boilers
better :-)