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LOU/eccentric Me, I’m Counting is one one of my favorite ship names. Nice godly name.
Surface Detail has the most direct philosophical exposition and plot-extraneous world building among the books I’ve read so far. Mildly tedious. Also not particularly enjoying the detailed description of hells. Reminds me of Dante’s Inferno (which I also found tedious).https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1350335875373154305 …
Kinda fun to learn about non-SC divisions of Contact. Quietitude is a nice concept for an afterlife intelligence agency.
Ok SC still steals the show in the end. Surface Detail is a B-. Some really ambitious world-building compromised by long stretches of rather tedious scene descriptions.
This is the most overtly socialist-polemic of the novels so far, and somewhat weakens it. Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints is probably one of the most anthropomorphic ships ever. Almost too human to be fun, though it acts properly ship-like towards the end.
Status:
Use of Weapons: A-
Hydrogen Sonata: A
Look to Windward: A
Matter: A+
Player of Games: B
Consider Phlebas: B-
Surface Detail: B-
To go:
State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
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