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cgoodin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Chuk Goodin) wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:12:13 -0500, Aaron Bergman
> <abergman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >_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.
IIRC, there were two stories in Analog (the ISFDB lists only one,
"Unseen Demons", July 2002, perhaps I am wrong).
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Robert Woodward <robertaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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