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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Well, it's reasonable adventure/coming of age story, set in the universe of Conan Doyle's "Lost World". But I never got really involved with the characters. Greg Bear does seem to be better at world building than writing characters, IMO.
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Really? Does it have the Professor Challenger characters in it? I'm a big Sherlock Holmes fan, so I've been reading some of Conan Doyle's other works recently, and I recently downloaded a Professor Challenger omnibus off Mobileread. I've been trying to finish "The Land of Mist," but it has such an obnoxiously pro-Spiritualism (which is how they referred to psychic mediums in Conan Doyle's day) and anti-skepticism message that I find it hard to read. But since all these books are really short and I like the characters, it would be great to read a full novel with the same characters in it.