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I would have liked this one more if there had been a bit more of an inspiring end. The idea of the transmigration of souls into various historical settings was interesting, but I felt that Robinson could have gone further making the characters more interesting sometimes. This is a bunch of novellas grouped with the reincarnation spirits, but the writing is uneven because I felt that the early stories were much more engaging than the later ones and found the last one oh so uninteresting and ultim
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A sprawling historical narrative spanning centuries. The major theme dealt with in this book is the speculative philosophy of history.
Does history as whole have a structure? A direction? Is there a teleological sense to history? Is history a progress? The author’s opinion here seems to be in the affirmative and so he leaves us with a lot of optimism at the end of the story.
This book is set during the period of Christian domination. In this alternate history, a plague kills almost all the Christi ...more
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