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Title: A slow ride
Review: This is quite different from most science fiction. Unfortunately, it did not work for me. The author emphasizes dialogue and developing characters at the expense of plot or action. Nothing really happens. We go back and forth between a health crisis in the 21st century and one in the 14th century, where people keep dying and the characters cannot do much to affect it, so we are forced to endure their grim fate along with them. For those who prefer characterization to action, this book may be enjoyable, but to someone like me (who admittedly tilts to escapist space opera when reading science fiction) it was simply a slow-moving story about dealing with death.
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