I read it and I liked it, but I thought that there were a lot of unresolved points at the end, to say the least. (Frex, what ever happened with that Anton...
... [...] ... I thought the clue was that Union did not really 'lost track' of all that many people, and that living without an official identity was difficult...
Mere dots or line breaks got swallowed by the web interface, so I'm adding SPOILER SPACE the hard way. I got Conspirator last weekend and read it on three...
... I'm only about 30 pages in, but Bren seems highly aware of his responsibilities to his province and its people. Looking forward to seeing how things...
At 1:39 AM -0700 5/6/09, Eric Ladner wrote: I'm only about 30 pages in, but Bren seems highly aware of his responsibilities to his province and its people. ...
actually this book delves into atevi politics is ways the prior ones never made clear. It also gives a cliffhanger ending as our favorite great-grandmother...
I was reading Deliverer again to compare how Cajeri comes across there and in Conspirator when another thing struck me again: Is the concept of man'chi a...
You are looking for an either / or when the correct answer is of course both. There is a natural tendancy towards association that cultural construct and...
... Seems like a typical book 1 of 3 setup for the story - very satisfying and leaves me expecting more. But one thing I'm not clear on - I thought Geigi was...
... Geigi is lord of the Maschi ruling over the Edi province, lord of the station, and a court official of the Aishidi'tat, who happens to serve the aiji from...
Man'chi interlocks, remember. Personal bodyguard details are probably selected from those with the correct SET of man'chiin (at minimum, to the Guild and to...
... The answer, I think, is all in Onno's last paragraph: provinces, lordship, and man'chi are not - at least, not completely - territorial. ... Eric...
I just finished reading Tripoint for the first time. I guess I just didn't pick this book up when it came out back in the day. It was a good read, but it took...
Part of my own enjoyment of Tripoint is that it is the first book to tell the story somewhat from Fleet's side which is where my sympathies always lay. It...
... We don't know, I think ... The Mazianni haven't been decisively defeated as of Regenesis, they just faded away. Finding their colony should have been...
... I asked CJ in her blog the question I posted earlier and she responded: CJ June 17th, 2009 at 1:33 pm · Reply I'd have to look at my maps to jog my...
I had another look at Conspirator, with special attention to the Cajeri sections. My initial thought was to check if Cajeri was getting more or less Atevi in...
... Apologies for the lateness of my comment. It's a long story. For Cherryh's exploration of how this might have worked out, see _40K in Gehenna_. The Gehenna...
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Ah, but Doug, how do we know you're not just a AI. Somebody call the Turing Police! F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book....
... Well, I took my own good time to re-read 40k. ... I don't think so, at least not completely. The abandoning was deliberate, in that all sources agree. It ...
I'm re-reading 40,000 in Gehenna for the first time in some years (see my other post). I noticed some things which are getting new importance. 40k mentions...
... Maybe I'm imagining things, but from 40K I inferred that Conn took the Gehenna assigment because his wife was dead and he had no ties anywhere else, and he...
... That is the most likely explanation, but it makes sense (and might be fun) to consider all options: 1) The 'conventional' war against the Mazianni is over....