Marrow
After my little rant about Greg Bear’s Anvil of Stars last week, I though perhaps that I should write a little something about the next book I read – Marrow, by Robert Reed. This is another one of those books dealing with huge scales of time and space. The plot is interesting, with several changes; these aren’t trick endings but more a sense of turning a corner and suddenly seeing wider horizons.
However, here, even though the characters are deeply flawed and victory is a more slippery concept than in Bear’s novel, there is a notably different tone. There is no humanist triumphalism, no sense of manifest destiny, but the tone is somehow less negative and hopeless than Bear’s.
I’ve not read anything by this author previously, so I don’t know whether this is typical, but I will certainly be keeping my eyes open for him in the future!
pax et bonum
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