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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Undercity - Catherine Asaro</h1>
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2021-03-19
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/catherine-asaro/">#catherine asaro</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/scifi/">#scifi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2021/">#books:2021</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2014/">#published:2014</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412186-undercity">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Major Bhaajan, a former military officer with Imperial Space Command, is now a
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hard-bitten P.I. with a load of baggage to deal with, and clients with woes
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sometimes personal, sometimes galaxy-shattering, and sometimes both. Bhaajan
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must sift through the shadows of dark and dangerous Undercity—the enormous
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capital of a vast star empire—to find answers.</p>
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<span id="continue-reading"></span><div>
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★★★☆☆
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<p>There are some cool elements in this book, but I felt like it tried to stretch
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too long and lost its pacing after the middle.</p>
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<p>For example, a city built by humans teleported billions on kilometres across the
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space, getting in another planet, having to learn the technology present to
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survive. That's cool.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, the fact that the current story is 5.000 years after that
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make things a bit hard to swallow. I mean, look how much we changed in 100 years
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here, imagine how much things would change in 50 times that. But it feels like
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the current state is pretty much the same as 5.000 years before, so it feels the
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whole thing was managed by incompetents (we learn magical technology and then
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nothing).</p>
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<p>Another interesting factor: The whole vision of a world controlled by women. It
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really twists the current state of a male society around, when men being
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"pretty" and women being the strong ones. The start of the book this is a bit
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too much -- I mean, men are really shown as being just pretty pieces of meat,
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and I'm not saying this 'cause I'm a man and I can clearly see that society
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today treats women like that, but heck, let's kill it. 5.000 years, remember?
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5.000 years and we still treat people like pretty things to shown around?
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Fortunately, later this distinction mellows a bit, with the "pretty men" getting
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out of the story.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, by the end of the book, things get so confusing to follow around
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that I really didn't care anymore. Dialogues are well constructed, but
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descriptions of sewers and such got way over me. The destruction of said sewers?
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It was so confusing to me that I couldn't follow the story anymore -- and I
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simply let it flow and waited for the dialogues.</p>
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<p>Speaking of dialogues, the whole bunch is told in first person and there seems to
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be a lot of "internal talking" just to expose things. Some are nice and really
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contribute to the story, some are lengthy and add mostly nothing, and some
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are... shallow.</p>
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<p>Since this is a first book, I can understand that the following books may be
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more involving (to me, at least).</p>
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