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There isn’t a lot I can say about this book that hasn’t already been said. I saw (did not meet) Joe Haldeman at the Nebula’s last year, but this book has been recommended to me so many times for so many years. I finally decided to give it a shot. It’s a war novel, and due to time dilation with relativistic travel, while only a few years pass in the experience of the protagonist, hundreds…
At this point in the theocracy/dictatorship/oligarchy that is brewing in the US, I figured it was well past time for me to read this book. It’s been on my TBR pile for a while and with a 4 day trip without internet, and with lots of down time, it was a good opportunity for me to finally make it happen. This is an important book and everyone should read it. I’m classifying it as hard…
After an ultra-marathon day of editing (6-8 hours in the chair) I finished the first round of structural and grammatical edits for my novel “The Survivors” just now. I actually don’t remember when it was I printed it out and made in-line comments by hand, but I think it was last summer. It has been very slow going, but I am so happy with how it turned out. Most importantly, I had stalled on editing…
I was glad to come back to this world. I enjoyed learning about Pax and Steveland and how the plant live on that planet worked. At the end of book two, Steveland sent seedlings to earth, as well as a Glassmaker, so I was looking forward to seeing that interaction. Instead, this book took a quite different turn, showing the aftermath of a global war (the Insurrection) that took place within the last few decades.…
