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Vendetta, vengeance, victory?

Revisado: 04-21-25

What a tale! While a truly grim story, Gwynne manages to make the reader care about many of the characters. Their bonds of family and kinship make them human even in the midst of hatred, angry gods, powerful magic, blood and gore. This vengeance is served hot. After all the Herculean efforts of the main characters and furious fighting subsides, do the characters feel it was worth the losses? The reader also feels a sense of loss but at least feels satisfied for the effort invested to listen to such a long and complicated saga. There are some loose ends at the conclusion, but perhaps there will be a fourth book in the same world setting. The narrator did a remarkable job with the difficult pronunciations. I felt like this made up for the somewhat monotone voice.

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More for Revelation Space lovers

Revisado: 02-14-25

I thoroughly enjoyed filling in details of the RS universe, with back stories (and future histories) of many RS characters and places. Galactic North was a perfect ending to the collection with the future of mankind balanced on a knife edge in a ship appropriately called Hope. And don’t skip the author’s postscript!

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Just keeps getting better

Revisado: 07-07-24

Wow. Just when I thought this series could not improve on the last book, Abercrombie rings the bell again. What a masterful tale, “weaving” a complex plot together with more surprises and more depth of character. This is easily in my top 3 low fantasy series of all time. Highly recommended, but it is even better if you read all the previous books in this world first. JA manages to find important roles for characters the reader thinks are long gone. Never a dull moment.

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Reynolds’ best?

Revisado: 12-26-23

This is a mind-blowing story with beyond galactic scope and a timeline of millions of years. I don’t understand some of the very negative reviews. One can’t make an accurate judgment about a book after listening for two hours. For me the major characters are well developed. The flashbacks to origins can be seemingly irrelevant but there is a great, but subtle link near the end of the story that may surprise readers. If you like hard science fiction that raises big questions without sacrificing an intersection story, I think you will like this book. I found it more satisfying than the Revelation Space stories. It is a stand alone novel unrelated to the RS universe. The only downside to what was an otherwise excellent narrative performance is that it is sometimes difficult to tell which of the major protagonists is speaking as the narrator does not always create sufficient distinction between male and female voices. The reader just has to pay attention. Highly recommended!

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A satisfying sequel

Revisado: 09-17-23

This book is even better than Revelation Space and I would rank it above Absolution Gap, the third book in the trilogy. Very satisfying in its depth of characters and builds clear bridges between Book 1 and Book 3. I found myself actually caring about some of the characters, which is unusual for me when I listen to a narration rather than reading these books. As always, the reader’s performance is exceptional. .

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Prelude to a Presidential campaign

Revisado: 11-20-18

Yang is clearly running for something. He prepares the ground via thorough research documenting the serious problems and contradictions generated by capitalism. However, he cannot bring himself to draw the obvious conclusion, namely, that capitalism IS the problem and socialism is its most serious symptom. Instead he reinvents something called human capitalism, as if there were any other kind. The basic idea is that the intensifying contradictions of capitalism can be softened for the masses by giving people a basic stipend. This well worn idea that the State can create a kinder, gentler capitalism by redistributing income is nothing more than Utopian reformism. It does nothing to change the inexorable dynamic of capital toward its own destruction. Of course our capitalist system can meet this demand, and in return the contradictions of capitalism will only be deepened and prolonged as a consequence. That some “progressive” capitalists see the need for this type of socialist response speaks clearly to the deepening crisis. As Yang says, the alternative is revolution. Somewhere the ghost of Marx is smiling.

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