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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog

It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.

Currently reading

Station Zero
Philip Reeve
Progress: 220/282 pages
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Vess
Progress: 749/997 pages
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Robert Chandler
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
Patrick O'Brian
Progress: 8/160 pages
The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
Marguerite de Navarre
Progress: 152/544 pages
The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
John Masefield
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Poems Selected
Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
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Selected Poems
U A Fanthorpe
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The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Mick Imlah, Robert Crawford
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
Ursula K. Le Guin
Progress: 133/789 pages

Empire of Light, Gary Gibson

Empire of Light - Gary Gibson

This third and final book in the Nova War sequence is a disappointment, mainly because, instead of improving further on the quality gains made in the second book, this one falls backward. Early on there is a major plot point that makes a horrendous continuity error and the book never really recovers. It also seems to lack any coherent message, unlike it's predecessors.

 

It's some time since I finished this book and I don't really have anything else to say about it. The fact is there are better writers of space opera amongst Gibson's contemporaries, even if all you want is an exciting thriller, and I would recommend you seek them out: Neal Asher, Peter F. Hamilton and Alastair Reynolds are all much better on the average.