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The Quiet War (The Quiet War, #1)
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Quite clever in its exploration of the social "process" of going to war ... from the demonising of the opposition amongst the populous to the engineering of diplomatic incidents and the exaggeration of the enemies threat (weapons capability).
(Almost) all of the viewpoint characters are greedy, self-serving, politically ambitious scum.
Anyone else detecting some not-too-subtle parallels with recent events?
On top of that there is some fairly detailed exploration of issues of environmental management and the requirements for living in the outer system. Some interesting "hard" SF, although much too often delivered in direct "lecture mode".
Overall the unsympathetic viewpoint characters and the books tendency to lecture rather spoilt the experience for me.
(Almost) all of the viewpoint characters are greedy, self-serving, politically ambitious scum.
Anyone else detecting some not-too-subtle parallels with recent events?
On top of that there is some fairly detailed exploration of issues of environmental management and the requirements for living in the outer system. Some interesting "hard" SF, although much too often delivered in direct "lecture mode".
Overall the unsympathetic viewpoint characters and the books tendency to lecture rather spoilt the experience for me.
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June 15, 2009
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January 11, 2010
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