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A review by remembered_reads
This Virtual Night by C.S. Friedman
4.0
Judged on its own, This Virtual Night is an entertaining adventure/investigative romp through a space opera-y universe. While the ending is a little rushed, the suspense-building was successful enough to keep me reading almost straight through.
But as a follow-up to This Alien Shore, I couldn't help but be a bit disappointed. The (relative) realism of the hacker adventures in that book has been replaced by a more generic game-designer-turns-RL-adventurer here, and the interesting social commentary on human difference that came along with the Gueran society being explored in This Alien Shore is all but absent this time around.
Love the idea of
But as a follow-up to This Alien Shore, I couldn't help but be a bit disappointed. The (relative) realism of the hacker adventures in that book has been replaced by a more generic game-designer-turns-RL-adventurer here, and the interesting social commentary on human difference that came along with the Gueran society being explored in This Alien Shore is all but absent this time around.
Love the idea of