The Revolution Business

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Moved along pretty fast. I want a little less action and a little more of the ideas. Is that weird? Cliffhanger - I'm going to have to get the next one quickly, but I have come to suspect that this whole series ends each book on a cliffhanger, and I'll be stuck on the author's writing pace pretty soon... ( )

Everything blows up. ( )

Not up to the standards of the rest of the series to date; this book feels like it's just setting things up for the last volume. I suspect I may be unable to evaluate it fairly for personal reasons; the Plot Device Pregnancy is an issue I have difficulty with and that perhaps colors my overall opinion of the book, and someone with different triggers would find the book more enjoyable. ( )

Or, Clan War time. With another reactionary clan, led by the United State republican party.

Miriam is pregnant, and an heir to the throne, no less, so plenty of manoeuvring around here, along with trying to keep her alive.

However, there's a little matter of some nuclear weapons. Or, what are the superpowers that give spies screaming nightmares? Telepathy/mind control, invisibility, and teleportation. A limited form of the latter is of course what the Clan worldwalkers have. So doesn't matter where you put your handy nuclear weapons unless you defend against them in the same manner they day.

So the stakes have been raised from massacring each other with our world obtained automatic weapons.

Their other world research also continues in a more scientific manner, working out that no, it really probably isn't magic in that sense, what is going on here.

Not as good as the earlier series, and a definite cliffhanger.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2010/04/revolution-business-charles-stross.html ( )