And then, despite the fact that I really wanted to know how the events turned out, I found myself reading comics. There was so much going on, so many characters and points of view, a lot of material to digest.

However, Downbelow Station is such a dense book that I am not sure there was any way around it.ĭespite quite a few typos, problems with grammar and syntax (but perhaps my edition was a bit dated), I was really gripped for the first 200 pages and not terribly bothered by the elliptical and unsmooth writing style. Prologues, especially when they serve as info dumps (which is the case here) generally put me off. I dived into Downbelow Station and was really amazed by the scope of the prologue which provides readers with all the background information they need regarding the Company, its fleet, the different stations and the Union. So when this Hugo winning novel turned out to be the result of May's poll, I was delighted! Cherryh needs no introduction to genre readers, I must admit that this great lady is one of those classic scifi authors I had yet to actually read (there are quite a few others which I shall not name just yet.). But Pell's location on the outer edge of Earth's defensive perimeter, makes her the focal point in the titanic battle of colony worlds fighting for independence? Pell Station, orbiting the alien world simply called Downbelow, had always managed to remain neutral in the ever escalating conflict between The Company, whose fleets from Earth had colonized space, and its increasingly independent and rebellious colony worlds. This read was for the 2012 Theme Park book club, May theme: The Final Frontier I read it and loved it and shall review it shortly! It was exactly what I wanted to read.

Those are now on my Sony reader but before I got a chance to get to them, Madeline Miller won the Orange prize for her debut novel, The Song of Achilles, and well, let's just say the price of the ebook edition was simply too tempting to even contemplate stopping myself. I am now planning to fill in a big gap in my literary culture by reading the Iliad and the Odyssey (yes, I've never actually read them!). I've recently had the chance to visit Greece, well Corfu anyway, and that rekindled an old love of mine: Greek mythology. EdroxySo unfortunately, my folklore Cuban myths book for the Around the World in 12 Books challenge STILL hasn't arrived!!! I'm already very late without having to worry about postal delays on top of that!

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