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  • Endeavour - Christopher Nuttall

    From Andrew McDowell@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 27 11:20:52 2023
    This is unashamedly influenced by Ringworld and Rendezvous With Rama. Although written within Nuttall's "Ark Royal" series, a good part of it is the travels of our heroes through a Dyson Sphere, in the apparent absence of its builders, but in the
    presence of a (pretty much) human population of roughly a city-state level of political organisation. with technology more primitive than this might suggest, because of lack of resources, among other factors. I bought this partly just because this style
    of plot is rare. I don't think that it measures up to its illustrious models, but it's reasonably entertaining, and I quite like the Ark Royal universe - I will probably buy the sequel, especially after looking at the free sample, which suggests that
    there may be some skullduggery as multiple human nations will bw investigating the sphere.

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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Nov 27 20:20:52 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Andrew McDowell <[email protected]> wrote:
    This is unashamedly influenced by Ringworld and Rendezvous With Rama. >Although written within Nuttall's "Ark Royal" series, a good part of it
    is the travels of our heroes through a Dyson Sphere, in the apparent
    absence of its builders, but in the presence of a (pretty much) human >population of roughly a city-state level of political organisation.
    with technology more primitive than this might suggest, because of lack
    of resources, among other factors. I bought this partly just because
    this style of plot is rare. I don't think that it measures up to its >illustrious models, but it's reasonably entertaining, and I quite like
    the Ark Royal universe - I will probably buy the sequel, especially
    after looking at the free sample, which suggests that there may be some >skullduggery as multiple human nations will bw investigating the
    sphere.

    Does this follow the rule that anyone encountering a megastructure
    will be forced to walk across a lot of it?
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  • From Andrew McDowell@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Tue Nov 28 12:03:18 2023
    On Monday, November 27, 2023 at 8:20:57 PM UTC, James Nicoll wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Andrew McDowell <[email protected]> wrote:
    This is unashamedly influenced by Ringworld and Rendezvous With Rama. >Although written within Nuttall's "Ark Royal" series, a good part of it
    is the travels of our heroes through a Dyson Sphere, in the apparent >absence of its builders, but in the presence of a (pretty much) human >population of roughly a city-state level of political organisation.
    with technology more primitive than this might suggest, because of lack
    of resources, among other factors. I bought this partly just because
    this style of plot is rare. I don't think that it measures up to its >illustrious models, but it's reasonably entertaining, and I quite like
    the Ark Royal universe - I will probably buy the sequel, especially
    after looking at the free sample, which suggests that there may be some >skullduggery as multiple human nations will bw investigating the
    sphere.
    Does this follow the rule that anyone encountering a megastructure
    will be forced to walk across a lot of it?
    --
    My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
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    My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll
    The locals seem to use canoes for travel between cities, so there is a good bit of canoeing as well as walking. They exit from the sphere via a specially designed contraption sent down (at some risk) from the main (star)ship of the expedition. Of course,
    since it is a megastructure, "a lot of it" is true if measured in terms of hours spent travelling or sore feet but far from true on the scale of the megastructure.

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