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dustydigger
Posted 2016-12-17 12:19 PM (#14732 - in reply to #14721)
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Location: UK		I'veadded Singularity Sky to my 2017 reading list! Better get cracking with your last two books. You have done very well as I remember you being a little uneasy as to whether you could manage 10 books in the year.Severian derailed you a little I think! lol.
Oh boy! I've just surfaced (very appropriate word!) from Michael Swannick's Nebula winning Stations of the Tide.An unnamed bureaucrat is sent to the planet Miranda to find a renegade scientist -cum-magician who may have possibly stolen some proscribed technology.Redolent with allusions to The Tempest,this book swings wildly from SF to fantasy and is hallucinogenic,surreal,bewildering and hypnotic. I didnt understand most of it,and even the ending was weird,but the book was enormous fun,exploding with ideas,fantastic worldbuilding and it certainly lived up to the famous quote in the Tempest
''Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.''
This whole book was rich and strange indeed - and only 260 pages long!

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