Re: BOOKS: The Also People

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 10:13:52 MDT

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    At 07:56 AM 5/14/03 -0700, Damien Sullivan wrote:

    >Has anyone here read _The Also People_ by Ben Aaronvich? It gets
    mentioned on
    >rec.arts.sf.written as being "The Culture done right".

    A Doctor Who book being compared with Banks? Gee.

    An Amazon reader comments:

    < There is such a happy, lighthearted tone to this book that you forget
    that you are reading about a planet of killcrazy artificial intelligences
    who wage war for the hell of it and murder each other for convenience sake. >

    Well, okay, that sounds like Banks's milieu. :)

    Damien Broderick

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