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hydroacetylene
58m ago
Self defense, yes, but Perry wasn’t pointing a gun at him.
PierreMenard
58m ago
it is wrong to enslave people even if the enslaved people like it.
How is that slavery if they like it?
quiet_NaN
59m ago
Gideon had a rather straightforward plot, happening in meat space. I could summarize it okay from memory.
Harrow had a plot where most of the action was neither straightforward nor happening in meat space, apart from Harrow's culinary achievements (which I enjoyed). Most action happened on a mesa-narrative plane or the river of souls. I would be hard-pressed to give up a plot summary. On the plus side, I found the mesa-narrative thing kind of novel and fun -- the book was basically trying to gaslight me about what had happened in Gideon.
Nona felt more down-to-earth, low stakes, with the action taking place planetside on a planet with an actual human civilization on it (I was beginning to wonder if they existed). Personally I found it the least engaging of the three books so far, but YMMV.
And the sound track kicks in so loud you can hear the long curly hair, "Wheeeen aaa maaaaaaan loooooves a womaaaan...
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