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Revelation Space (tiny spoiler, not much)

  • 10-04-2001 02:15AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,415 ✭✭✭✭


    ok, so it's present day, and the main char is doing stuff ....

    wait wait wait, it's 20 years ago, on the way to a different star system, with another main character ... ok starting to get the hang of thi-

    *smack* back to the 1st character, but now it's 10 years later, whoa, he's having flashbacks to -

    no, cut that, we're back 30 years ago, on a 3rd world, with another seemingly main character. do we get her story? ah, yes, a flashback - she was ...hang on, she went to sleep for 20 years. hmmm, ah, but she's going to wake up ...

    ... in the present (ie start of the book - 20 years) ...

    ... then go back to sleep ...

    ... for another 20 years ...

    ... then wake up again!

    hang on, what happened the main character? (the 1st one - the other 2 met and had sex* (two women) ) ....

    ... he had a flashback...

    and this is only 100 pages in!

    is anyone else confused? I've to keep reading from 10 pages before where I left off every time I leave it down, just to make sense. smile.gif

    Class book though! And what a cool name that author has! smile.gif

    Al.

    * ok, it was just my imagination. Nice thought though!



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