Monday, 25th of November, 2002

Just finished two of Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s novels previous to the current series: ReMix and RedRobe. I loved his last two (see reviews here) and these were pretty fun if somewhat more slight. The mysterious psi abilities which show up in both books on the sidelines seem somewhat out of place in what are otherwise pretty much hard science fiction, and the violence is sometimes too much - but I’m pretty much with him politically, and I think there’s a moral centre to the works. His characterisation and the moral/political aspect to his work improves greatly in the current series, which I think is fantastic.

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