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Feels so long... The writing is fascinating. An archaic style but set far in the future and gives a wonderful sense of disorientation and timelessness

Absolutely packed with biology, anthropology, ecology and other sciences. It is not light reading but slow down, pay attention, quite rewarding and insightful.

Very clever title

Screwing money out of peasants is the foundation of civilisation.

So his wife's been murdered and he's on the run, or on the sail rather. This better not be one of those spiritual journeys without any explanation

The cat is just a footnote...

Talks about how coincidences don't make science.

Spends an entire chapter talking about how intuitive imperial is due to a few almost coincidences.

What kind of science book uses imperial measurements.

So this top secret organisation which is intent on maintaining its secrecy, made a very public landing at a crowded high school and loudly shouted for a specific person to go with them. Ok. Makes sense.

So cringe

Rosemary packed up and left Don without a word because of some dumb assumption she made, that was it? That hospital scene made zero sense and added nothing to the story. What a waste.

No amount of high fences and barbed wire can protect against this guy's insecurities. JFC.

That's it? There was little to no reason to hide this information. It was hidden just for drama I guess?

James keeps asking vital questions and Kay doesn't want to answer them just because? But she still wants him to investigate... What.

The narration is sentence fragments.
The dialogue is sentence fragments.
It's hard to tell them apart

like watching paint dry on a rainy day. Not even sure the paint is drying, but you’re still sitting there, staring at it, wondering why you started in the first place, waiting for it to dry and when it finally does you realise it wasn't worth the wait

What on earth is happening