[kibs] Finished: RAFT by Stephen Baxter
- From: Mike <michael@xxxxxxxx>
- To: KIBS Literary Treehouse <kibs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:37:12 +0000
* Mike wrote on 2018-02-17 12:08:
Started reading RAFT by Stephen Baxter today 2018-02-17.
This is book five of the Xeelee Sequence, my personal 2018 reading
goal.
Finished reading RAFT by Stephen Baxter yesterday 2018-02-18.
About half the length of RING (79k words vs. 141k), which accounts for
the quick reading time. Enjoyable, exploring a world first introduced
in an earlier short story of the same name.
The universe the characters inhabit is really, really 'weird', in an
interesting way, and the social structure that evolves is interesting.
The Boneys are truly gruesome and manage the rare feat of being
stomach-churning but also believably real and sympathetically drawn.
I preferred RING, but still enjoyed this.
--
MIKE, KIBS Member #2
"Language is to the mind more
than light is to the eye."
-- William Gibson, playwright
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