Daz I really wish Klaus was still around here. Hope he's doing well.
I keep in touch with him every few months or so, and he probably wouldn't mind me mentioning he's doing well. Off living the dream on Gotland a lot of the time.
Daz Me too! I bought the series after Klaus' recommendation. Started the first book and then left it for a bit (can't remember why) and when I went back to it couldn't remember a bloody thing about the characters. I actually spotted it on my bookshelf just the other day and thought I must give that another go.
It was pretty good, keeps on being fun and different as it goes. Read it quite a while ago. Reminded me of reading Olaf Stapledon when I was about 20. The political values are simultaneously radical and arch-conservative in that science-fictional way, like reading a Silicon Valley venture capitalist's blog post. The cosmic scale, atrocity and absurdity of the plot devices gets vaster and vaster as the sequels go on.
