![]() ![]() ![]() I remember a professor in an undergrad English course telling us, as we worried about being lukewarm about various famous bits of poetry we were studying, that one shouldn't expect a big aesthetic ah-ha from everything one reads. I didn't read the first book, and I had no trouble-she leaves enough clues that you can piece together what happened without the annoyance of information dumps that slow down the story. ![]() In particular, I loved the way she played with how cognition appears in clouds of nanoentities.ģ) Other reviewers complain that it is the second book in a series. She does more with less-No FTL, next to nothing about weaponry, but an amazing job exploring the various ancient entities (slowly enough to preserve dramatic interest but quickly enough that there are no deus ex machinas). I prefer the latter, if you like the former you'll like Reynolds better.Ģ) I thought her imagination of future tech was more creative. Reynolds work is more "a bunch of related, interesting events," and Nagata's book is more like a single story. ![]() The scene always stays with the 5 inhabitants of a single ship, which keeps the story more, well, story-like. Here's why.ġ) The focus is much narrower. Vast reminded me of Alastair Reyonld's Redemption Ark series (far future setting, ancient robot killers, ancient opposition to robot killers, humans caught in the middle), but I liked it better than Reynold's books. ![]()
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