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Decent, but a little dry

Downbelow Station (The Company Wars #1) by C.J. Cherryh

February 23, 2019 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

Apparently a Hugo award winner, Downbelow Station was part of the huge pile of Christmas book swag that I’ll likely be working my way through for the rest of the year. Not something I’d normally buy for myself, I found it to be an ambitious and pretty impressive piece of sci-fi world-building, but ever so slightly dry in its execution, so I didn’t quite get as into this as I would have liked. In our far distant future, the denizens of Earth have spread outwards […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: c.j. cherryh, Fiction, Hugo, sci-fi, the company wars

TheShitWizard's CBR11 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: c.j. cherryh, Fiction, Hugo, sci-fi, the company wars ·
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