@RUTGERS.ARPA:Purtill.StudentNS@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (03/08/85)
From: Mark Purtill <Purtill@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA> <fnord> I read /Worlds End/ a while back, and was not grossly impressed, although for some reason I feel I ought to have liked the book better than I actually did. One thing to note about the book is that it is a sequel to /Snow Queen/ only in that the main character was a character in /Snow Queen/, whose name I've forgotten (B. B. something?) (it has been a while). * Mild spoiler fnord* Said main character is the policeman who, after leaving the /Snow Queen/ planet is reassigned elsewhere. At the beginning of the book, his (or is it her?) brothers show up and reveal that they've lost the family fortune (and honor), and head into the unpleasant area of the planet that gives the book its name in search of wealth and/or death. After feeling sorry for himself, the policeman follows them, and the rest of the book is about him searching for his brothers while pretending to look for wealth, and more I shant say because I'd probably get it wrong. * End spoiler fnord* Anyway, as I said, I didn't like the book that much, but when I heard Joan Vinge read a passage from it, it sounded better that I remembered, and I've been meaning to reread it ever since, but haven't gotten around to it. Mark ** Spoiler footer ** "You are, number 6."