![]() ![]() ![]() Seanan is aware that you have Google at your fingertips, so doesn't bother to explain some things.We like a lot of the characters, so threatening them is scary and losing some of them hurts.Seanan's books read almost effortlessly, and this is no different.Structurally, the major differences are that we and the characters know what's about to happen, so a lot of it is willful this time and there are survivors. Or alternately, maybe I didn't need to read the second story since I've read the first one. You don't need to read the first story, because the second story is just a longer version of the first story. The reality channel wants revenge and vindication, and so do some of the people who lost people in the first story. ![]() She's just released Into the Drowning Deep, a sequel. You remember the Discovery Channel did a credulous and asinine show about the modern-day survival of Megalodon? The premise of Rolling in the Deep was a similar show by a reality channel preying on the credulity of viewers, sending a bunch of people to the South Pacific to look for mermaids. A while back, she did a novella called Rolling in the Deep. Seanan McGuire does her SF/horror stuff under the name Mira Grant. ![]()
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![]() I've just finished reading The Trial for the second time - I first read it when I was 12 and much of the nuance and concepts were lost on me then - and what struck me most was the diverse range of potential interpretations the text could elicit.
![]() ![]() ![]() Jupiter disappears and those of his followers, who aren't killed, are taken prisoners - Lot survives and grows up in Silk, thinking that his father is dead.īut, as they say, you can't keep a good thing down. ![]() The Silkens who thinks that the only thing the Well has to offer is death, fights Jupiter and his followers, trying to save them from what they see as suicide. But the only way to the Well is through the space elevator and to get to the space elevator you have to go through Silk - a city at the top of the elevator. You see, Lots father - the cult leader Jupiter - tried to take his followers to The Well, a planet that promised paradise according to Jupiter. Don't get me wrong the characters and the writing of Deception Well are as strong as ever.ĭeception Well is about a boy/young man - Lot - who is heir not only to the gift/curse of being charismatic, but also has to carry the burden of trying to live up to his father's legacy. Maybe it's just because I've grow familiar to her style and the psychology of her characters. I still wouldn't call her an easy read - but a bit of the strangeness is gone. In this, the third book from this new master, Linda Nagata takes us to the far future and away from earth - paradoxically the characters in this book aren't quite as strange as the characters in her first two books (The Bohr Maker and Tech-Heaven). Deception Well is a science fiction novel by Linda Nagata. ![]() |