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Just Finished "Inhibitor Phase" by Alastair Reynolds (sopuli.xyz)

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What are some of your favorite scifi book authors, and books by them?

Alastair Reynolds has written on of my favorites ever, House of Suns, and I really like the lore of his Revelation Space universe. I especially enjoyed the spinoffs exploring the Yellowstone demarchy centered around Panoply.

Inhibitor Phase ended up a weaker entry, imo, charachters that felt a bit too much like Mary Sues. Like mere excuses to exposition dump about the universe itself. Which did enjoy immensely. Still I would much rather have seen some large scale change occur, rather than a the mere zoom-in on some catalytic events.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I enjoyed his other series too if you haven't read them - Blue remembered earth and Revenger universes most recently. In general though he's much better at world building than tidying up the narrative.