The Color of Distance
A Fiction, Aliens, Science Fiction book. One of my main criteria when rating a book - and, when skillfully done, one aspect...
"The Color of Distance is an off-world tale of first contact and discovery, a long and loving evocation of a complex alien ecology...impassioned."-- "The Washington Post Book World" "An energetic and entertaining first contact novel, complete with charming, strange, dangerous aliens."--Vonda N. McIntyre"Fast-paced, suspenseful science fiction."--Voya"Deeply felt and closely imagined."--Mary Gentle* Amy Thomson is a national bestselling author...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 400 pages
- ISBN: 9780441002443 / 441002447
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See also my blog review: http://examinedworlds.blogspot.com/20...The depth of world-building and character development in this book is amazing. The style of world-building is different than what you get in Herbert's Dune universe or Tolkien's Middle-Earth. Maybe it would have been nice to get more of a sense of the whole planet or what... This was pretty damn awesome if you like sci-fi This lady lands on an alien planet, but she's allergic to the atmosphere so the aliens have to reconstruct her DNA so she's more like them. It tells of how she adapts to their culture and learns to communicate by changing the color of her skin. The author switches constantly between the... One of my main criteria when rating a book - and, when skillfully done, one aspect of the writer's art that can just leave me in awe - is the author's ability to bring the reader into an unfamiliar culture with a minimum of pedantry or obvious explication. Given that the culture of this book is one where the inhabitants communicate...
