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Discussing it with my sister, I described it as 'realistic', but that was the wrong word. What I meant was *rich*. Palmer paints a remarkably believable world; not in spite of how alien and incomprehensible it seems, but because of it.

She lays bare that much sci-fi centers on today's society transplanted somewhere exotic. Despite huge differences in history, situation, and technology, the people and their relations are familiar. Not so here. The book is a fascinating reminder of just how different people and groups can truly be.