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Well, the last few stories were very good, also style-wise. I tried the excerpt of volume 3 of his Dandelion Dynasty series, but it's hard to get through, to understand what's going on. I haven't even read the books. What's this excerpt doing here? Added to reach a certain number of pages? A waste of paper and time, if you ask me.

It started well, but the writing is (sometimes unncessarily) heavy and characters not that easy to sympathise with, let alone remember what the story was about, "cardboard" as they might call it. Technology vs humanity and also division between humans via technology, as we see today as well. So, theme-wise ok, but sometimes tough to 'grasp", imho. Might be external circumstances.

"A Psalm for the Wild-Built": Despite having a few issues with Chambers' choice of words (just a wee bit too modern for a tale like this, imho), this is a wonderful tale, yes, indeed. "For anyone who could use a break", as is written in the beginning.
Now on to "A Prayer for the Crown-Shy", "For anybody who doesn't know where they're going". Or I might read something else first.

Simple stories, not ridiculous but almost. Humour quite absent or just not mine. One more to go. 3 stories purely for entertainment purposes, no need for thinking, though Bordage tried to add his classic themes on species, racism, religion.