Miker,
Re you comment below:
> One small complaint I would make about the novel
is
> that Mal
> and most of the other characters are
continuously
> rehashing
> the events and speculating on motive and guilt.
By
> the
> second half of the novel this continous
process
> becomes a
> bit worn and tedious.
This was perhaps a consequence of its first appearing as a
serial in BLACK MASK. In fact, if memory serves, the serial
installments were (as with RED HARVEST, THE DAIN CURSE, and a
number of other novels that first appeared in BLACK MASK)
writeen so that each could stand on its own as a short story,
which may have necessitated "summing up" scenes in each
installment to clue readers in to the fact that the
supposedly
"autonomous" stories were part of a larger whole.
JIM DOHERTY
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