Here, Chuk Goodin <cgoodin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:12:13 -0500, Aaron Bergman
> <abergman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >_Emissaries From the Dead: An Andrea Cort Novel_, Adam-Troy Castro
> >
> >A far-future sf murder mystery set against a not entirely unfamiliar
> >background of various biological civilizations and a mysterious AI
> >civilization. Nonetheless, the direction taken is reasonably original
> >and interesting. The main character is not exactly a likable person,
but
> >is believable and reasonably sympathetic. Worth picking up.
>
> I finished this last week. Both an interesting setting and an
interesting
> narrator, I thought. One thing I wasn't exactly sure of (partly because
of
> the subtitle) -- are there other Andrea Cort novels? Or maybe just
> stories? She referred to past incidents that sounded like they were in
> books already, but ISTR reading somewhere that this is Castro's first
> published novel.
I was left with the impression that there had been earlier short
stories.
(But the book succeeded without me having read them.)
--Z
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"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
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When Bush says "Stay the course," what he means is "I don't know what to
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