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Daniel Smith
is 11% done
This book is really pulling me in so far. I'm just over 10% through it and I'm enjoying the way the author has set up the world. The tone and expansiveness of Dune, the lightsabers of the Jedi knights, the character development that reminds me of W. Michael Gear's Requiem For A Conqueror, and the imaginative hard sci-fi of Alastair Reynolds and Neal Asher. This is sort of a list of my favorites, which bodes well.
— Jul 08, 2024 01:40PM
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Daniel Smith
is 87% done
“When we think of War and her atrocities, we imagine that the unforgivable is prosecuted on the battlefield, in the heat and fire. It is not. Atrocity is writ by quiet men in men in council chambers over crystal glasses of cool water. Strange little men with ashes in their hearts.”
This book is good.
— Jul 20, 2024 09:29PM
This book is good.
Daniel Smith
is 69% done
This book continues to - intentionally or otherwise - borrow from some of my favorite sci-fi authors. I've mentioned before some of the other works Christopher Ruocchio's novel touched, but I have to add Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space to that list. I've already listed Reynolds, but something about the clarity with which Ruocchio expresses complex, alien-based plotlines and archaeology is really enjoyable.
— Jul 17, 2024 07:45AM
Daniel Smith
is 39% done
This book is reminding me strongly of a few other of my favorite books smashed together into a delicious bouillabaisse: Ender's Game for the main character and his sympathy to the "xenobites," Cage of Souls for the general dark atmosphere and realism, Dune for the expansive world-building and backstabbing politics, and a little bit of the general tone of Heinlein. Oh! Plus there are lightsabers!
— Jul 13, 2024 11:23AM
