Re: Blue Remembered Earth. Alastair Reynolds.

On 9/5/24 11:52 PM, Titus G wrote:

On 5/09/24 01:14, Tony Nance wrote:

On 9/4/24 1:56 AM, Titus G wrote:

Blue Remembered Earth. Alastair Reynolds. 2012

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I am so glad you liked this. 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 guessing the characters were too shallow for you or maybe you did
not like Geoffrey, the simple elephant man protagonist? The cousins were
unusual

You have indeed guessed correctly - shallow as a contact lens case. I think, except for Geoffrey, every major character (and many minor characters) were some combination of self-absorbed, self-righteous, impulsive, unsympathetic, True Believer jerks.
Geoffrey was fine, though he tends to accept/agree that every negative thing in the universe is his fault.
but while the plot was unravelling, I was more interested in the

setting and 'science'.

Agreed - the setting and the science were wonderful.
- Tony
(The fantasy book read before this, The House in

the Cerulean Sea, was 95% relationships so perhaps I was glad to escape
that atmosphere.)