★★★☆☆ Average
(SF) Badly damaged in action, Qad's ship barely makes it to a shipyard. Qad expects a reward for his efforts, but things have changed since his last visit. (6,572 words; Time: 21m)
Recommended By: 📙JStrahan+2 📙RHorton+2 👍NClarke.hm+1 (Q&A)
Although this is described as a "companion piece" to the author's 2011 work, Little Faces, the two stories have nothing to do with each other.
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Review: 2015.239 (A Word for Authors)
Pro: The author makes Qad's extremely exotic universe seem real to us. We understand his embarrassment, his anger, even his fear.
Con: We have no clue why the men carry around vestigial females; much as we had no clue why the women in "Little Faces" carried around vestigial males. For all the complexity of the universe, the story itself is quite linear.
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Pro: The author makes Qad's extremely exotic universe seem real to us. We understand his embarrassment, his anger, even his fear.
Con: We have no clue why the men carry around vestigial females; much as we had no clue why the women in "Little Faces" carried around vestigial males. For all the complexity of the universe, the story itself is quite linear.
Other Reviews: Search Web, GoodReads.com
Vonda N. McIntyre Info: Interviews, Websites, ISFDB, FreeSFOnline
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