Kirinya

by Ian McDonald | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 1857988760 Global Overview for this book
Registered by PDB11 of Oakhill, Somerset United Kingdom on 11/1/2018
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Journal Entry 1 by PDB11 from Oakhill, Somerset United Kingdom on Thursday, November 1, 2018
I think science fiction is getting harder to write as science becomes more arcane, but McDonald seems to have found a distinctive voice.

The setting had a mixture of things I liked and things I didn't - the aliens were excellent, and some of the things people were doing with their technology little less so. This was a bit spoiled by the use of "fullerenes" as a buzzword to explain stuff which, quite frankly, they don't. (I wasn't convinced by the whale song either.)

The story was a bit fragmentary, following Gaby, Serena, and others more or less at random. There were hints of a huge interconnectedness behind this, but it didn't really satisfy.

At a lowere, more detailed level, there was too much sex and violence, and some specific things that just made me think "No!" - such as the horrible mistake the aliens had apparently made in uplifting the elephants at the end of the book.

In all, not a keeper - for release.

Journal Entry 2 by PDB11 at Ashwick Pound in Oakhill, Somerset United Kingdom on Friday, November 9, 2018

Released 5 yrs ago (11/8/2018 UTC) at Ashwick Pound in Oakhill, Somerset United Kingdom

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