Has anyone here read

Marc Aramini · 07 Nov 2011, 02:39 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 18:39:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Has anyone here read
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--- On Sun, 11/6/11, larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com>
> Subject: (urth) Has anyone here read
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <Urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Sunday, November 6, 2011, 4:21 PM
> Has anyone here read the Confluence
> trilogy by Paul J Mcauley.? A
> friend said if I was into Wolfes Sun books that I should
> check it out.
>  Anyone on here read it? If so was it good?
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I read it about a decade or go I think.  It was all right, fantasy motiffs become increasingly science fictional as it progresses, but as an author while McAuley uses circular time and concealed identities he is a bit less mystical in his world view, and in my opinion it makes it a much poorer work than anything in the Sun series.  

I might read it again someday, but not until I have finished everything on my shelf and there are no more new books I am interested in coming out.  My remembrance of it is that it's decent but not great like Wolfe.

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