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Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds
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Feb 27, 12

3 of 5 stars
bookshelves: audio-book, reviewed-on-the-sfbrp
Read from January 04 to February 27, 2012, read count: 1

Full review on my podcast: SFBRP #155.

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02/22/2012
2.0% "I'll be in Tanzania in two weeks!" 1 comment
02/23/2012
30.0% "Tanzania to the moon and back. I want to do that trip."
02/24/2012
50.0% "Unless the story properly picks up, I think this might be considered "low level Reynoldian" material." 3 comments
02/26/2012
75.0% "I have a feeling the ending I guessed I might get back at the 40% point is really ending Reynolds wants me to read. I prefer to be surprised. Maybe I will be." 1 comment

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message 1: by Tom (new) - added it
Feb 21, 2012 02:36am

Tom Oh brilliant! My copy arrived in the mail but I haven't started it yet.


message 2: by Luke (new) - rated it 3 stars
Feb 21, 2012 02:59am

Luke Burrage Tom wrote: "Oh brilliant! My copy arrived in the mail but I haven't started it yet."

I saw it in a bookshop yesterday, almost bought it, and then remembered to look it up on Audible. They had it, so I bought it for one credit on the spot! Sorry, local bookshop, but Audible wins this round.


message 3: by Emanuel (new)
Feb 25, 2012 10:01pm

Emanuel Landeholm Is this his most recent? I just finished House of Suns and I have the worst cravings for Reynolds-stuff.


message 4: by Tyler (new) - added it
Feb 26, 2012 09:40am

Tyler Lutz It is his most recent. House of Suns will be hard to beat though. Pushing Ice was a great read. I haven't read the Revelation Space books but I hear they are fantastic.


message 5: by Emanuel (new)
Feb 26, 2012 01:31pm

Emanuel Landeholm I haven't read the Revelation Space books but I hear they are fantastic."

Oh yes. They are. Hard sci/fi noir for teh win! :-)


message 6: by Tamahome (new) - added it
Feb 27, 2012 05:33am

Tamahome I've heard Revelation Space called 'gothic space opera' too. I read The Prefect first so I'll always prefer it I think.


message 7: by Greg (new) - added it
Feb 28, 2012 04:58pm

Greg It's not available in the USA until June.


message 8: by Tamahome (new) - added it
Feb 28, 2012 05:00pm

Tamahome I think some 2nd party amazon sellers have it.


message 9: by Tyler (new) - added it
Feb 28, 2012 05:00pm

Tyler Lutz Greg wrote: "It's not available in the USA until June."

Thanks for rubbbing it in!!


message 10: by Tamahome (new) - added it
Mar 02, 2012 03:48pm

Tamahome Sorry you didn't get full satisfaction. Century Rain was bad huh.


message 11: by Luke (new) - rated it 3 stars
Mar 02, 2012 03:50pm

Luke Burrage It's not a bad book! Just not up to Reynold's standards.


message 12: by Chris (new) - rated it 3 stars
Mar 06, 2012 06:29pm

Chris Luke wrote: "It's not a bad book! Just not up to Reynold's standards."

Spot on. If this had been by an author I'd never heard of before, I'd have been interested and looking forward to more. From Reynolds, it just comes out to 'well, that was fine, I guess'.

Which isn't to say I'm not looking forward to more, mind you.


message 13: by Dylan (new)
Mar 17, 2012 12:39pm

Dylan Harris There are some bizzare things in the story that I thoroughly hope are scene setting. I feel Reynolds is trying for a different, perhaps more mature, reflection. The book has some positives: for example, I like the character progression, which I find an improvement on his earlier works.


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