Hyperion (I only read one volume) had the potential despite starting with Canterbury tales sub-planet scale inspiration, but I felt lost its way. Didn’t feel inspired to finish.
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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.
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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.
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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
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