On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:06:05 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Plotkin
<erkyrath@[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.)
Yes -- I didn't mean that to be taken as a negative. Certainly didn't
require previous reading. (Did seem to be setting up for sequels, although
I guess the fact that the subtitle's not "THE Andrea Cort novel" makes
that pretty obvious...)
The mystery was interesting, too.
--
chuk
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