First book in the Night's Dawn trilogy.
It took me abt 20 days to read this 1220 page book. It felt like reading 3 or 4 books! The story is good but I wasn't excited. I will try and read the other 2 books (which are longer than this one!) But not now. Ideas I am interested in are the way certain transhumanist societies are organised, organic/biologic, sentient spaceships and the concept of affinity which allows humans to communicate between them and with their ships. Actually the theme I enjoyed the most was that one of genetically modified humans because it connects nicely with a book I read a few weeks ago: CRISPR People about Germline Genome Editing (embryo editing). It made me wonder about the social implications of such technologies, at least in fiction.
I also liked the mystery around space ruins left by an ancient civilisation. I got a bit bored by the events in a pre-industrial, recently colonised planet and I didn't like the idea of humans coming back from the afterlife to possess other people... not science fiction but fantasy I think.
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