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nwhyte's review
4.0
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This is an excellent hard sf novella, combining a couple of plot elements from Zelazny's "This Moment of the Storm" and GRRM's "Sandkings"; the narrator has spent decades fleeing his own past, and then finds it catching up with him, as the dumb aliens on the planet he helped colonise turn out not to be so dumb after all. The resolution of the hero's emotional and moral predicament is both imaginative and satisfying.
This is an excellent hard sf novella, combining a couple of plot elements from Zelazny's "This Moment of the Storm" and GRRM's "Sandkings"; the narrator has spent decades fleeing his own past, and then finds it catching up with him, as the dumb aliens on the planet he helped colonise turn out not to be so dumb after all. The resolution of the hero's emotional and moral predicament is both imaginative and satisfying.
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