Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Gary R. Schmidt" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (Review) In the Shadow of the Ship by Aliette de Bodard Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:04:00 +1100 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net +xQvaDg3nDi1bqDg73hVtwUC6XJ3tOFcVUU1pgCDtDCg0J74k= X-Orig-Path: paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:0+4o75wMlspuJc08X0ixLSNdhok= sha256:nIVf09C8gr1uxFU7xzt7rT8KJJg7IywtuVO+v4xJ5rk= User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux) Content-Language: en-AU In-Reply-To: X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Bytes: 2343 On 21/11/24 16:10, James Nicoll wrote: > In article , > Default User 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. > I'm reading it, bit by bit, as it's not holding my attention, and there have been Other Things(TM) going on, such as preparing to move and then moving. I wonder how it will connect to "The Shadow of the Ship", the two main characters in TSotS are there, and it's definitely an Alternate Earth scenario. Cheers, Gary B-)