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They Shall Have Stars by James Blish
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This is pretty hardcore in terms of its science content - I still didn't really understand what that massive bridge on Jupiter was for, right up to the end. I mean, I couldn't really tell you now, except... oh wait, yeh I could. Anyway, it seemed a bit dense at times. Then there were all the political machinations... yeah, quite convincing, but not all that interesting. And it was only like 129 pages... it could have gone much further... but I kind of enjoyed it. Just not massively.

I got this in an anthology of all the Cities in Flight books. It turns out that for once I should have read the introduction, as it tells you that the first book in the series wasn't the first one written, and that you shouldn't start there. Too late. But I'm going to go on and read the others anyway. Probably starting with Eartman, Come Home or whatever it's called.

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Reading Progress

October 21, 2019 – Shelved as: to-read
October 21, 2019 – Shelved
October 23, 2019 – Shelved as: sci-fi
November 19, 2021 – Started Reading
November 30, 2021 – Finished Reading

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