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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Now starting The Fortress at the End of Time By Joe M. McDermott.
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Quite thought provoking. I really can't decide if it was a happy or a sad ending. I imagine that was intentionally done.
Besides the ansible and cloning technologies (which were necessarily unspecific), I imagine the story is probably quite accurate in its portrayal of a society on the edge of human space. The politics of a military trying to stay prepared for the return of an alien enemy that humanity waged war with a 1000 years ago, as well as the politics (and economics, and time-scale) of a terraforming project that the aforementioned military is "protecting" (and retiring to) seemed entirely realistic to me.
Up next is Ben Aaronovitch's
The Hanging Tree - sixth in the Peter Grant/Rivers of London series.