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      It's so dark I've really focused on other books this week.
    
    
      — Jun 04, 2011 06:51PM
    
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      Why is it that we accept destroying an entire planet as a solution in space opera? Is it because it's less horrible than what is happening to the individual's planetside?
    
    
      — Jun 09, 2011 11:17AM
    
  
  
    
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      Wow! I hadn't realized how very, very dark this trilogy was going to be when I started this first volume. It's disconcerting, to say the least.
    
    
      — May 29, 2011 07:14PM
    
  
  
    
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      I'm a little sidetracked right now. The "epic" nature of the book has forced Hamilton to introduce characters who seem tedious and uninteresting.
    
    
      — May 15, 2011 07:27PM
    
  
  
    
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      As I get further into it, this book is grittier than some of the more macabre elements of Gibson's cyberpunk. Indeed, the way Hamilton uses "bitek" (bio-tech) in this trilogy, I suspect it "could" be called cyberpunk with some reservation.
    
    
      — May 12, 2011 08:26AM
    
  
  
    
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      The plot is more epic than I usually like, but the universe and its inhabitants are brilliantly conceived.
    
    
      — May 03, 2011 10:21AM
    
  
