They had forgotten the stars, forgotten the journey, forgotten even the idea of forgetting. Wow! April 2023! That’s... mumble mumble... a long time ago from the now in which I’m feeling sorely tempted to beat myself up about how it is such a long time ago. In my defence, I have been distracted, and it is no reflection on the value of this specific book, nor of the person I’ve become or the values I’ve just made up on the spot, that in 30 months Brian Aldiss has crossed my mind maybe an amount of times countable on the fingers of one finger. Ah, that’s not true! That was hyperbole. He has crossed my mind, at least twice (so double my laughable misrepresentation, at a minimum); when reading The Expanse novels of which reviews to follow in, hmm, maybe 25-40 months, wherein the generation ship the Mormons were building to cross the stars was half-inched by the OPA to knock Eros off its terminal trajectory to Earth; and indeed, when John and Elis asked Producer Dave (or was it the podcast a...
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