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Old 01-12-2015, 02:38 AM   #21483
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Next up: Mission to Minerva by James P. Hogan. Bought in a Baen bundle way back in April 2005.
I'm a fair way in now, but Hogan pushes his 'scientific' and political opinions rather hard in this book and series. I'll probably finish it, but if it starts getting worse I'm going to abandon it.
It just managed to avoid being abandoned, but I now rather wish I had bailed earlier. If one knows very little of actual science, history and palaeontology, or if one can ignore what one knows, one might enjoy this, if it wasn't for the fairly frequent info-dumps or lectures.

SIgh. I'd hoped I'd remembered incorrectly, but later Hogan just isn't for me.

Next up: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2015.

[EDIT: Also read freebie short story Bernado's House by James Patrick Kelly]
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