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Mytheiya
bear cub
Username: Mytheiya
Post Number: 9
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 12:55 am: |     |
Just finished reading her book Snow Queen, I have the next book, The Summer Queen on hold at the library, so I'm going to read it too. I thought I'd coment a little on this author and her work.
Its really well written, interesting, and very very Sci-Fi. The onyl Sci-Fi i have ever read besides this book is Anne McCaffrey's Dragon Riders of Pern Series. I must say I really liked this book, I picked it up because the cover was beautiful. I know I know your not supose to choose a book based on its cover, but sometimes I've found that it leads you to some of the best writting in the world. I picked up Jean M. Auel because the cover for COTCB was beautiful and the little post script in the flap abstracted a very interesting story all around.
The only complaint I have of the Snow Queen is that Vinge dumps you into a culture you know nothing about, and never fully explains it to you in the book. Oh you get glimpses of the culture, but you never really truley figure out the differance between the Winters and the Summers. (the two culture groups in the book, on the main planet Tiamat). Anyways, I hope others of you have read the book, I'm looking forward to reading the Summer Queen, when it gets in the library. Anyways..Choa.
"No man ever really Lives" ~Braveheart |
Bartholomewcm
gatherer
Username: Bartholomewcm
Post Number: 198
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2003 - 2:37 am: | |
The Snow Queen was one of those books that I remembered for its unusual ending, a well worked-out resolution of the conflict between the pair of antagonistic principals. Also remember thinking of it as something that a female Hal Clement might have written, a world worked out extensively on paper before she fixed her plot (as opposed to one who filled in the scientific background over time after getting started, like McCaffrey's Pern). It can be easy for such an author to forget that the reader doesn't know about the background encyclopedia that is sometimes prepared as a continuing reference for the actual writing of the story. |
Mytheiya
bear cub
Username: Mytheiya
Post Number: 10
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 5:32 am: | |
Not that anyone cares! :nono: I just finished the Summer Queen. Quite a read at 670 Pages..but not near as long as SOS or OOTP. I must say Vinge ties thing up nicely in the sequal. She lets you kinow all the secrets, that you where really wondering about in the first. But she still doesn't reallt explain the culture of the people your reading about. you don't find out how or why these people have seperated themselves out into two different races. its really strange.
The ending is nice...it lets you think on your own what will happen to the main characters, and yet it sums up the basic problems they where all going through. Anyways. the cover art on The Summer Queen was done by michael Waelon and is in his calender this year...you should check it out!
Well thats my opinion, I hope someone else besides me has read this thing..It be nice to talk with someone!!
"No man ever really Lives" ~Braveheart |
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Prehistorical Fiction, SF and Fantasy