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Scavenger Trilogy: Pattern - K.J. Parker

Description: Author: K.J. Parker / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Newest Review: ... and again. He does the best he can, doggedly, determinedly, struggling in the midst of a herd of inscrutable strangers, to ... more

... fit in. It's at once fascinating and horrifying to watch. Like witnessing a massive road accident happening in slow motion, seeing each impact, anticipating each new crash and explosion and frenzied scream, and being absolutely helpless to stop it. Nothing that Poldarn does works out. He won't take responsibility where he should, he seizes it where he shouldn't. His questions are offensive, his ignorance worse. He's innocent, but no-one believes in his innocence, he's well-intentioned, but his decisions and action...more

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Scavenger Trilogy: Pattern - K.J. Parker: Pattern Recognition. (833 words)
by - written on 18/10/04 (Very useful, 48 readings)
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Having trampled his way through the lives of several dozen people, unwillingly terminating most of them on the way, Poldarn, amnesiac protagonist of Parker's mordant and enthralling story, finds himself 'back in the Olde Country'. For, at the end of book one, Shadow, he was restored to the bosom of his loving family. Not, mind you, that it's as loving as all that. Poldarn's folk, the Viking-esque raiders who live on two great isles far out in the ocean, turn out to be a most peculiar people. Each small community, each little farm or hamlet, is a hive-mind all of its own. Everyone lives inside everyone else's head, telepathically intimate with everyone's needs ... Read the complete review