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Despite a 20-year publishing gap, this story picks up immediately after the events in the novel Cyteen. The prose rambles and seems quite repetitive, but possibly it’s less annoying to those who haven’t just recently read Cyteen.
The clone of Arianne Emory is 18 years old and trying to determine how much power she should grab and when she should grab it. Justin and his father are newly reunited and having one angsty argument after another because Justin is friends with Ari.
Ari lives out the fan ...more
The clone of Arianne Emory is 18 years old and trying to determine how much power she should grab and when she should grab it. Justin and his father are newly reunited and having one angsty argument after another because Justin is friends with Ari.
Ari lives out the fan ...more

Not sure how anyone could follow this without reading the preceding trilogy. On the other hand, Cherryh makes the political and social context more clear here than in the earlier novels. Slow start, but by the end I'm dying for the next one.
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Mar 29, 2010
James
marked it as on-my-wishlist-sff-1
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Apr 14, 2014
Ted
marked it as to-read

Nov 03, 2019
Hali
marked it as to-read