# New book by Terry Pratchett and another guy...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 5, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-by-terry-pratchett-and-another-guy/624156 "2012-06-05T14:47:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-by-terry-pratchett-and-another-guy/624156/21 "2012-07-12T21:24:40Z")

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**Dseid** , I certainly got that sense. I mean

Are we really supposed to have any sympathy for parents who would do that to a kid and are we supposed to get engaged with the new life they are making for themselves?

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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-by-terry-pratchett-and-another-guy/624156/22 "2012-07-13T00:56:58Z")

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As everyone else said, it wasn’t very Pratchett-y. The “elves” kinda resembled the elves from _Lords and Ladies_, but other than that it seemed run-of-the-mill random Sci-Fi.

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**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-by-terry-pratchett-and-another-guy/624156/23 "2012-07-13T10:28:22Z")

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I love Pratchett, and collect every book of his that I can find. I’ve also got a serious love of hard sci-fi, and Baxter has written some great ones (Raft, The Timeships, Evolution, the Manifold series), and so I collect as many of his books I can find, as well. My favorite genre is alternate history/parallel worlds subgenre. Two of my favorite authors collaborating on my favorite genre? Sign me up!

Except… it really didn’t work. I bought the book the day it came out, and read it over a week. And now, a month later, I can’t remember much of anything about it. There were some brilliant bits, but for the most part, it was completely forgettable. I don’t even know what the entire \*point \*of the story was.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-by-terry-pratchett-and-another-guy/624156/24 "2012-09-03T15:25:53Z")

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Bump 'cause I’ve finally read this, and I can say it worked for me, but is clearly the setup for a series.

And for those who didn’t see a lot of Pratchett in it, I kind of disagree. Even just from an overall plot point A world-spanning intelligent ocean/slug thingummy is classic _DSotS_ stuff.

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