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Originally Posted by taosaur
I tore through the main Solar Clipper series ebooks in just over a week. It was indeed "a refreshing change of pace" as someone else noted, despite some dark turns along the way. The blurb in the back of each book, that these stories are about "ordinary people" and an "average joe," made me smirk a bit every time: sure, your everyday polymath wunderkind, refashioning every organization he joins from day one in the cafeteria. Granted, the protagonist was a super-manager rather than a super-soldier, which is distinctive enough. The world building also had a "futures past" feel, like it was a future extrapolated from late 1950s/early '60s USA, rather than the present day. That anachronistic quality was alternately charming and problematic. On the whole, though, very enjoyable, and I'm sure I'll revisit them on audio somewhere down the road. There were a lot of parallels to my own work and workplace, middle management in a fairly independent department of a much larger organization.
Right now I'm taking a break from WoT to re-read/listen to the Stormlight Archives, before diving into the new one.
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Thanks for the pointer, I picked up the first two as ebooks. I liked the first one, just started on the second.