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dustydigger
Posted 2026-01-15 4:54 AM (#33750 - in reply to #33734)
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Location: UK		.Finished the excellent A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett's sequel to The Tainted Cup. Great character work,adequate mystery story but like with Tainted Cup it was the striking world settings that fascinated me the most,so fresh and unusual,and I really enjoyed seeing more of the biotech cum magic rather than the more military setting of the first book.I really felt that this was a rich very diverse world,not one standard cultural scenario.
The whole milieu is interesting. Is this our future world if biotech developed strongly in a barely post mediaeval time.Or is it more like a dying earth type of world where high sophisticated society is long gone,even millennia gone much like a Gene Wolfe/Jack Vance tale. Or is it just a different world,those Leviathans dont sound very earthly! lol.I went from one opinion to another as I read. Nice to have a book for once that has something to mull over while enjoying an old fashioned mystery tale
I also read a novelization of the Buffy the Vampire film. Not great of course and Josh Whedon was totally correct in making major changes in setting and Buffy's character when creating the TV series. lol.But its not on WWEnd so its not going to count


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