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<div dir="auto">Glad to hear it! I’m looking forward to it too, this will be the first story by Alastair Reynolds that I’ll read. <br />
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<span style="color:#202122;font-family:sans-serif">On a different note, this is the second book selection in a row that we’ve chosen a science fiction novel by a writer not know for writing science fiction (to be fair, everything I know about Lao She is what I just read on wikipedia). It’ll be interesting to </span>see how Lau She’s 1930’s novel, <em>Cat’s Country, </em>compares to Dorris Lessing’s <em>Shikasta</em>. Below is the “Critical Reception” section from the<em> Cat Country</em> wikipedia article below:<br /></div>
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<div style="indent-level: 1"><span style="color:#202122;font-family:sans-serif">Lao She declared his attempt at satire a failure, lamenting its lack of humour, and critics have described the book as not a great novel.</span><span style="color:#0b0080;font-family:sans-serif;font-size: 11.199999809265137px"> </span><span style="color:#202122;font-family:sans-serif">Cyril Birch describes it as sound in structure and fun, but very uneven. Koon-Ki Tommy Ho argues that many critics evaluated </span><em style="color:#202122;font-family:sans-serif">Cat Country</em><span style="color:#202122;font-family:sans-serif"> by standards not applicable to utopian fiction, and states the book "placed [Lao She] among the successful modern writers of dystopia in world literature."</span></div>
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<span style="color:#202122;font-family:sans-serif">I’ll read all the books we’ll discuss this time around. I feel a little bad giving up on </span><em style="color:#202122;font-family:sans-serif">Shikasta. </em><span style="color:#202122;font-family:sans-serif">I may adopt Robert’s 'read 10 pages a day’ strategy and ‘get er done'. ...‘er' being </span><em style="color:#202122;font-family:sans-serif">Shikasta.</em></div>
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<div dir="auto">On Jul 10, 2021, 2:30 PM -0400, Richard Schwartz via reading-group <reading-group@lists.nesfa.org>, wrote:</div>
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Looking forward to reading the Alistair Reynolds. <br />
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Rich<br />
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On July 10, 2021 at 2:02 PM, Louis Galvez III <nesfalou@gmail.com> wrote:<br />
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The order in which we’ll discuss these books is based on the book's availability. <br />
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