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Justina Robson – Going Under

Micro-review, since I’m about to take it back to the library.

Short summary: para-rom tropes from a perspective about halfway between hard SF and fantasy-of-manners. Good. Warning: contains elves.

Irritated complaint: publishers who don’t make it prominent (eg. on the bloody cover) that it’s part of a series. To be precise, book 3, which is almost inevitably the worst place to start a series.

Tags: annoyance, fair folk, fantasy, p: gollancz

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