Title: first novel reworked?
Product review: All the earmarks of an early novel -- not remotely in the class of Revelation Space series in terms of plot sophistication, crafting of cultures, motivation of characters and such.In fact "Century Rain", when stood next to Reynolds supposedly earlier books, is so much less an effort, that it smells of a cheap publisher scam -- find some unpublished early work by newly acclaimed writer, spruce it up a bit and publish it as a later work.Almost half the novel is smothered in a tedious and embarrassingly ill constructed "out of the frying pan" sequence where the two protagonists escape from one increasingly improbable death defying situation only to land in an even worse messScant attention is paid to the pace, detail, nuance and character motivation that made Reynolds wonderous Revelation Space series the gold standard of hard SF.On the whole, I want my money back!!
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