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Dense, challenging reading - I'm not enjoying it as much as Star Maker, but I think I was up for this kind of approach to SF more when I was younger. Some modern writers can achieve this scope and yet still tell an actual story and get the emotions involved. Anyway, I'm glad I'm dipping into it now and then, because it is laborious reading, but impressive.

Awright, I have not really enjoyed this so far - but Gregory Benford, in his Intro to my edition, did advise me to skip to page 79, the start of Part Five. I didn’t do that, and I’ve suffered for it. I presume things improve from this point on; I don’t think I’ve ever read the Intro of a novel that told me to skip a huge chunk at the beginning. Until now.