One of the best introductions to the classic “space opera” genre there is. And one of the best sci-fi stories in existence.

This is truly one of the most remarkable, well-written books I have ever had the pleasure of reading. I can’t recommend it enough!

The structure of the book was hard to follow at first but after getting through the Priest’s tale I was hooked

World building- epic Action- epic Writing- epic Story telling - epic Thought provoking- epic Top 5 sci-fi I have ever read

Deliciously described tale; a great adventure begins! Loved it.

Simply amazing

Great read

Stories told of a sojourn of semi interesting characters on a disjointed quest. Mindless details of what? Having read Dune, Foundation and Lensman series I expected something on that level and finished feeling that I had been bated into purchasing another book in order to have any sense of completing a story. There is no “hero’s journey “. No character the reader can identify with. Just a feeling that maybe I should not have spent the time reading this book.

The few complaints here seem to be about not understanding what’s going on. Stick with it. All the odd sci fi elements are explained as you go. Really compelling work.

What he tries to do in this book doesn’t work. If you’re going to make the narrative confusing and fractured, that’s fine, but it needs to come together at some point. Also the motivations of the characters were rarely clear and they didn’t always do stuff that was in character for them. Very disappointing for a book that I was told by everyone is one of the best sci-fi books of all time. I have no idea what the hype was about. It felt like a college student got high on LSD while reading Neuromancer, went to a Writing class that same day, vomited on the Canterbury Tales and tried to paint what dripped off into a novel.