Re: Highlights and Lowlights - May 2025

On 5/06/25 06:36, Tony Nance wrote:

Highlights and Lowlights - May 2025
 
Books are rated using a very primitive rating system:
“+” are good, and more “+” are better
“-” are not good, and more “-” are worse

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( + - - - ) Rogue Star - Pohl & Williamson [Starchild Trilogy #3]
AND
( + - ) Starchild - Pohl & Williamson [Starchild Trilogy #2]

I am now pleased that I stopped after book 1. I have more often than not
been disappointed with reading or rereading such ancient stuff which
would have been great in its time.

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( ++ ) Mickey7 - Ashton
This was pretty interesting, and I’ll read the next one some time. The
tone is reminiscent of Weir’s The Martian, and the characterizations are
a bit hit-or-miss. It seems to take place roughly 600 years in our
future. Mickey is the Expendable on a colonizing expedition to a cold,
barely habitable planet. As an Expendable, when Mickey dies, he can be
“reprinted”, with the most-recently-uploaded memories of his previous
iteration already installed when he “wakes up”. So Mickey7 — the current
Mickey — has died 6 times in service to the colony/mission. His job is
to do the most hazardous stuff needed, knowing that he can be reprinted.
There are some interesting takes on being an Expendable and the effects
on the surrounding society.

I rated this three stars also finding it interesting but I have already
forgotten the resolution.