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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I am going to read 1632 by Eric Flint, whether as this month's choice or sometime later this year, but I suspect after last month's tome most club members will find 612 pages a bit much. Steerswoman strikes me as containing too much fantasy to be taken seriously as science fiction, but I could be wrong. I'll read anything that wins this month.
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Ah, but that's the trick of
The Steerswoman. What appears fantasy is actually science.
Any more than that, I can't really say without being a huge spoiler, but it really IS a fit for this month. Though I might argue the opposite in December, if necessary.
(And I tend to agree about the length of
1632. But I would add that Eric Flint is a very much tighter writer than Kim Stanley Robinson, and that the 600 pages go very quickly.) So whether we read it now, or you read it later, you're going to have a treat, IMO.
I am not willing to read Brave New World. Once was more than enough.