"Glory Season", David Brin

I finished David Brin's "Glory Season" last night (having stayed up late two nights running).

http://www.davidbrin.com/gloryseason1.html

Certainly excellent value for a doorstop-size SF paperback that I picked up from the bargain box of a second-hand bookshop for 85p: the world-building is fascinating, and the author manages a convincingly alien viewpoint while conveying necessary information (that the narrator takes for granted) to his human readers. And I really liked and cared about the characters... which is why it's so frustrating that *three* times in the course of the plot the protagonist gets close to someone who is then whisked out of her life and effectively never returns despite being constantly mentioned in her thoughts! ( Read more... )