![]() ![]() ![]() And it is, by far more obviously than The Cobbler’s Boy was, a riff off Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Banks (it even got me wondering whether Bear may not have intended the Synarche (the galactic civilization she describes here) as a kind of proto-Culture). Cherryh with her genre-changing Downbelow Station but with some added super tech, which in, which in turn is somewhat reminiscent of the late great Iain M. Smith and his successors but rather in the low-key, both scientifically and psychologically realistic vein introduced by C.J. It is space opera, but not in the over-the-top vein practiced by E.E. Ancestral Night is, I think, Elizabeth Bear’s first straightforward Science Fiction novel since her Jacob’s Ladder trilogy and appears to be set in the same universe as that one (I have not read the trilogy yet, but Ancestral Night openly references it at one stage). ![]()
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