A review by humanignorance
This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman

5.0

4.5 stars. An excellent far-future novel with solid world-building, excellent plotting, and good characters. The technology exploration and hacking adventures were particularly well done. Several things bothered me – there were a few social aspects of the world-building that didn’t much enhance the story (e.g. kaja, Variants), several key plot points were unclear, and the ending was too abrupt. Despite these shortcomings, it was always entertaining.