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The Company by K J Parker (view source)
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Those were more impressive to me – and there were certainly a couple of good cliff-hanging moments, and twists and turns to prove this remains an easily readable book. It again shows an author who has sat and at great length created a complex drama with a great deal of psychological truth, and I liked the book very much when she was able to abandon us with her colony, and all the hardships they are forced to face – or perhaps bring upon themselves.
It was just regrettable, with 430pp of below-average print size, that the book did include as many elements to bolster the characterisation, and configure into the greater scheme of things. I was often aware the blurb was better at providing a greater sense of urgent mystery than the book ever achieved. ''The Company'' is a book I would recommend to those not particularly fans of genre writing, which is something I enjoy doing when the material deserves it, but I would temper that recommendation with the feeling that the book remains a little woolly at times, and could have had a crisper, more accessible mystery at its core.
I am grateful for the review copy from Orbit that the Bookbag received . We also have a review of [[The Two of Swords by K J Parker]].
[[Hunter's Run by George R R Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham]] has a similar psychological genre spirit, again featuring fully realised people in the almost near-alien territory.
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