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Thanks. Tried to get into the series too, but end up just reading the summary of things and the whole series just sounds depressing. :(

• pavel_lishin 2y ago
  It is. One of the sequels was one of the times that a scene in a book actually made me cry. If you don't like depressing novels, also stay away from Stephen Baxter; I love his novels, but most of them are wildly depressing.
  • justinclift 2y ago
    > Stephen Baxter Oh. I don't remember those being depressing though it's been years since I read any. Which ones do you remember being that way?
    • pavel_lishin 2y ago
      Nearly all of the ones featuring Reid Malenfant are a bummer; in many of the Xeelee sequence stories, the future of humanity is only marginally better than living in the Warhammer40k universe, and the "happy ending" ones are ones in which humanity is merely mostly extinct.