I've been slowly reading Alastair Reynolds's Blue Remembered Earth on my kindle for the last couple of months, and finished it this afternoon. I liked it, including the world-building (both in the usual stfnal sense, and some of the literal bits of how the people in that future build their world, on the Moon and Mars and the United Aquatic Nations). Also, it has elephants, of various sorts, and they are definitely plot-relevant. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rysmiel said that they found it slow; it might be, a bit, but I think my slow pace has more to do with me than with the book. (I'm still having trouble getting settled in to read books when I'm at home, for some reason; I'm reading lots, more than 90% of it on screens, but that 90% is overwhelmingly nonfiction—news and blog posts and email and Atlas Obscura... On paper, it's mostly the less technical parts of Science magazine, as bathroom reading.)
I got Blue Remembered Earth as an ebook from the library, and it is badly overdue. Having finished it, I can sync my kindle and let it vanish in a puff of logic. I have the sequel listed as "for later" with the library (SPL, I think, or maybe KCLS) but am going to wait to borrow it, having another library ebook waiting to be downloaded to my kindle, plus various things I got for a dollar or two each.
rysmiel said that they found it slow; it might be, a bit, but I think my slow pace has more to do with me than with the book. (I'm still having trouble getting settled in to read books when I'm at home, for some reason; I'm reading lots, more than 90% of it on screens, but that 90% is overwhelmingly nonfiction—news and blog posts and email and Atlas Obscura... On paper, it's mostly the less technical parts of Science magazine, as bathroom reading.)I got Blue Remembered Earth as an ebook from the library, and it is badly overdue. Having finished it, I can sync my kindle and let it vanish in a puff of logic. I have the sequel listed as "for later" with the library (SPL, I think, or maybe KCLS) but am going to wait to borrow it, having another library ebook waiting to be downloaded to my kindle, plus various things I got for a dollar or two each.
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