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Huh I just recommended that some do go forward with a deepness in the sky, but read a fire upon the deep first because of the aforementioned content warnings.
by X6S1x6Okd1st 5y ago
Huh I just recommended that some do go forward with a deepness in the sky, but read a fire upon the deep first because of the aforementioned content warnings.
I think if I didn't already have some faith in the author I would have just stopped because the theming is so dark
- joe-collins 5y agoIt was definitely dark, and before I was halfway through I was desperate for the alien chapters just because all of the humans were just so damned miserable.
- btown 5y agoIt’s almost like the way in which a society is described to you affects how engaged you are in their success… which is entirely the meta-textual point!
- Stratoscope 5y agoI am a little confused. Which of the books are you and GP talking about that is so dark?
- db48x 5y agoThey are talking about A Deepness in the Sky. The good guys lose pretty hard and suffer as a result.
- garmaine 5y agoSame here. I would have put down and thrown away Deepness if I hadn't read Fire Upon The Deep first and trusted the author. I'm glad I finished it because of the parts about the spiders and Pham Nuwen's past was really interesting. But the "present-day" emergents story line is dark... I did not enjoy reading those parts.