But the first book (so long as you disregarded the first two unnecessary parts and started with Bren) is one of the great alien contact books - there is a disorientation you don't find anywhere else, even in Cherryh, except perhaps Hunter of Worlds - and I like to rec it as such. Unfortunately, nowadays you have to mention how long it goes on for, that you cannot really jump on at any stage, and that the original alienness gets diluted...
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Reading, writing, plant photography, and the small details of my life, with digressions into science and computing.
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Date: 2009-05-12 04:31 pm (UTC)But the first book (so long as you disregarded the first two unnecessary parts and started with Bren) is one of the great alien contact books - there is a disorientation you don't find anywhere else, even in Cherryh, except perhaps Hunter of Worlds - and I like to rec it as such. Unfortunately, nowadays you have to mention how long it goes on for, that you cannot really jump on at any stage, and that the original alienness gets diluted...