choice of words and their construction) and I really liked the world building - there seemed to be good depth and interesting ideas. This book is replete with authorial conceits, like those witty observations that seem to be present in all the latest books, gender fluidity, and yes, pointless cuddly cats named after Mephistopholes (and other people/demons the crew of the ship has probably never heard of unless it was via one of Haimey's 19th Century novels).ĭespite these foibles (and they are my foibles, not the book's) I thought it was rather good. The last comment above that Neil made resonates with me, as I kept thinking through the reading that it really seemed to capture the zeitgeist of current SF, which is another way of saying 'it's fashionable'. I overall liked Ancestral Night, and though I wasn't 'wowed' by it, there were times I thought it was quite good.
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