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Originally Posted by Jadon
I've read the trilogy. While I found many of the ideas interesting, the relentlessly downbeat tone tempered my enjoyment greatly. I don't have anything against dystopias; I just want them experienced in a more distanced way, less intense. Like the Ty Merrick novels by Denise Vitola, where a (sort of lycanthropic) cop in an enviro-damaged semi-soviet-ized future investigates odd crimes. The setting's about as bad as the Starfish world, but the tone isn't depressing.
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I only read the first book in Watts' trilogy, and I agree that it was good but really depressing. I downloaded several other books by him (the rest of the trilogy I think) here on MR but am reluctant to start them because of that.