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Ijust I just finished Beggars in Spain by Nancy Crest. which isfantastic actually. Really recommend it.

which was sort of fairly hopeless science mission to Hal's comet andthen they have to they got stranded and they have to exist in this on this cometwhere there might or might not be life. So, it's actually pretty good.

And I wassurprised to find that my favorite is Inversions. And it was it's hardly aculture novel at It's got barely any culture in it at all. It's kind ofhinted at and there's kind of oblique references to it.

it's one of my favorites. I did a reread last year.

I've only read Lord Valentine'sCastle which I loved. one of my favorite books of last year or year before Ican't remember when I read it

And then Mata is probably one of my other favorites, which is one ofhis more recent ones. But with a with a with a shell world, the salmon.Yeah. Yeah. I really love them.

I read a couple of his other things which were fine. quarantine isone of them which was pretty good, but that had quite a bit of quantummechanics in it.

Well, there was some interesting things going on in the Greg Eaggan book, but itwas basically incomprehensible for quite a lot of it.

But yeah, the onlyother one of hers that I've read I think is the dispossessed. so again, yeah. >> Yeah, it's pretty good.

And this galaxy is so old that umeven the sort of interstellar medium isn't really a vacuum anymore. is kindof just full of detritus and mucky bits and pieces after so many yearsof being millions of years of being >> quite heavily populated it seems byquite an extraordinary array of very non-human creaturesand that's one of the things that I enjoyed about the book is that isthat you went to town on the variety of different creatures

I just remember the beginning of the first oneactually, Promise of the Child, because it starts in like 14th century Prague,if I remember rightly, which I was when I first started it, I was thinking,>> the hell's going on here? Is this a science fiction book or what?

And half the time I had no idea what the was going on, but I went along for the ride and I did enjoythe ride.