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Crazy women
I finished The Miocene Arrow the other day. It gets better as it goes along, there’s more interesting, quirky character stuff. I still think McMullen gave me the war in far more detail than I needed.
One thing that bothered me: In both Arrow and the previous book, Souls in the Great Machine, MacMullen presents strong, intelligent, competent women (several of them in Machine). And in each of those books he has one of those women become a violent lunatic because of a broken heart. This was the greatest flaw of Machine, because a big chunk of the plot of the later portion of the book emerges from this lunacy. It’s less of a flaw in Arrow, but more annoying, because now I’m seeing it as part of a pattern.
Anyway, now I’m on to Karl Schroeder’s Permanence. It’s got a somewhat Heinlein-juvie opening, with some Vingeian ideas about cooperation on an interstellar scale.
One thing that bothered me: In both Arrow and the previous book, Souls in the Great Machine, MacMullen presents strong, intelligent, competent women (several of them in Machine). And in each of those books he has one of those women become a violent lunatic because of a broken heart. This was the greatest flaw of Machine, because a big chunk of the plot of the later portion of the book emerges from this lunacy. It’s less of a flaw in Arrow, but more annoying, because now I’m seeing it as part of a pattern.
Anyway, now I’m on to Karl Schroeder’s Permanence. It’s got a somewhat Heinlein-juvie opening, with some Vingeian ideas about cooperation on an interstellar scale.