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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
A very strong meld of science fiction and fantasy (although I don't consider it to be stronger than A Rose For Ecclesiastes or the Amber series) which I can see the influences of in a lot of future novels.
I feel it worked best when it was more a series of old school adventures in the style of Lieber's Lankhmar and LeGuin's Earthsea than a more meditative world building exercise. If it had one major problem it is that it doesn't really engage with Eastern mythology (and annoyingly lumps it together) but merely uses it as the backdrop for the story. It makes sense and I did not find it in itself offensive but he could easily have swapped the gods for Greco-Roman and\or Norse versions with almost no rewrites.
I feel it worked best when it was more a series of old school adventures in the style of Lieber's Lankhmar and LeGuin's Earthsea than a more meditative world building exercise. If it had one major problem it is that it doesn't really engage with Eastern mythology (and annoyingly lumps it together) but merely uses it as the backdrop for the story. It makes sense and I did not find it in itself offensive but he could easily have swapped the gods for Greco-Roman and\or Norse versions with almost no rewrites.