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Tracker Spoilers; Abandon suspense all ye who enter here
Topic Started: Apr 1 2015, 11:52 PM (2,938 Views)
Neco the Nightwraith
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Yes, I remember Todd saying that the only feature he altered a bit from his own was the nose.

Personally, I really like the Bren on the Inheritor cover. Although the Tracker Bren isn't too bad either. Those are probably the best two.
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Kokipy

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I liked it- meant to slow down but couldn't in the end. I loved Irene pretending to be Ragi so as to cross the security lines. I agree, she has the makings of a great paidhi. Her name is particularly significant- means peace, right? I think her mother has always been in Braddocks camp tho not in his bed, but she seems to be a hanger on, not a strong female character. There is no love lost there.
And I bet the suggestion that tillington has something going on we haven't yet discerned is prescient.
I do wish these books were longer. I may need to go back and reread the series from the start just to get my fill of the people/places/settings.
But I am glad to have gotten back to space with the Kyo.. I enjoyed the details about the notices in the shuttle about seat belt safety.
And I liked how Geigi had learned how to reset all the locks but had not shared that info with his Mospherian counterparts.
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Kokipy

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Ps, I have to say the relevance of the title eludes me completely. Why Tracker?
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Ashmire
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I'm guessing it refers to the kyo tracking the ship.
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This is definitely one of my favourite covers :)

As someone else already said I get the definite feel that this volume is starting to weave all wayward threads together; looking for the closure of this particular tale.
I'm in two minds over that - I love the Foreigner books but I also hold hopes for something all new, or a revisit to some other universe or species; the mahendo'sat has a special place in my heart, but I'm not partial - I welcome anything!
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With the "other visitors" that the kyo have had as yet unspecified, I think that CJC is leaving her options open.
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I am officially worried about the dowager's health.
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hrhspence,Apr 13 2015
12:54 AM
I am officially worried about the dowager's health.

Me too, and seriously so.
Besides the fact that she's a favourite character her demise would probably trigger a snakes' nest of new troubles, I think.
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I think the series will end before Ilisidi does.
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Kokipy,Apr 11 2015
06:26 PM
I liked it- meant to slow down but couldn't in the end. I loved Irene pretending to be Ragi so as to cross the security lines. I agree, she has the makings of a great paidhi. Her name is particularly significant- means peace, right? I think her mother has always been in Braddocks camp tho not in his bed, but she seems to be a hanger on, not a strong female character. There is no love lost there.
And I bet the suggestion that tillington has something going on we haven't yet discerned is prescient.
I do wish these books were longer. I may need to go back and reread the series from the start just to get my fill of the people/places/settings.
But I am glad to have gotten back to space with the Kyo.. I enjoyed the details about the notices in the shuttle about seat belt safety.
And I liked how Geigi had learned how to reset all the locks but had not shared that info with his Mospherian counterparts.

I wonder if Geigi's security advised him to keep the code reset procedures secret, and to see if the Mospheiran contingent knew about them and tried to use them against the atevi on the station. That would have been tellingly suspicious of the Mospheirans, and while they could claim computer malfunction, once Geigi reset them on his own before the Mospheirans could do it again, or even if he didn't need to know the original codes (although one believes that's necessary, like changing your password, you have to provide your current password).

Here's another question...would a "builder's key" like they used at Reunion override those locks even if they were reset? I would think there would have to be some sort of safeguard to prevent unauthorized persons from changing locks, or someone who did it maliciously in order to prevent the station from functioning normally.

I agree that Reni-ji has the makings to be an excellent paidhi, although I don't believe she'll necessarily be a ship- or station-paidhi. OOHH!! OOHH!! Maybe Bren and Jago "adopt" her and she becomes a permanent member of Bren's household, learning how to be a paidhi "on the job" instead of in the University of Mospheira. :rofl: I believe she's much smarter (and practical) than the three boys, but she's been so quiet in the background, that we've almost overlooked her. She's quick-thinking, quick to act when she sees an opportunity, and she didn't hesitate to do what she felt was necessary to get out of her mother's apartment. And then she shows just how much courage she has when she goes with the search parties looking for Bjorn, Gene, and Artur. You KNOW she was terrified, yes? She gets my vote for next paidhi!
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Irene is also the oldest of them, isn't she? Wasn't she like, 12 or something in Peacemaker? That much longer to get a little jaded and more down to earth (no pun intended) perhaps? :)

Edit: Rather, Bjorn was the oldest (13/14?) followed by Irene (12) and Gene/Artur (10?), with Cajeiri tagging along at felicitous 9...
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Lots of build up to a rapid and exciting finish. :)

Also, when did Narani start dying his hair out of vanity? He was always grey haired or white haired in previous books, and seemed perfectly fine with it... It's also the first mention of atevi actually dyeing their hair.
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Due to work and stuff, I only just finished Tracker.

Firstly, if the tracker of the title was not the kyo following human ship exhaust trails, then I have no clue what else it might have been.

Secondly, I have been a bit disappointed that the lack of plot in the last few books. I haven't been bored, but I have been restless, waiting for something to happen. In Tracker's 400 pages, Bren considers a trip to the coast, goes to the station instead, the kids are lost and then recovered, Braddock and Tillington are deposed, and that's about it. I was very excited that the kyo returned, because the strength of this series for me has always been when Bren is acting as the interface between alien intelligences, but then I was frustrated to find that we'll have to wait another year for that meeting to actually take place. To stress again, I liked Tracker. I just wish there had been more of it in terms of things happening now, and less of it in terms of ruminating on past events and fretting about future events.

Lastly, there's the odd phenomenon of Cherryh occasionally dropping a stitch of her own backstory. On page 142, Bren recalls the saga starting with Banichi giving him an illegal gun. Of course, it was actually Tabini who gave Bren the gun, which Bren then gave to Banichi to conceal the fact that an illegally armed human had wounded an atevi intruder. That could be a simple typographical error, though, switching the similar names of "Banichi" and "Tabini" while they were both mentioned in the same sentence.

Overall, solid as Cherryh's writing always is, but not as much as I was hoping for.

Edit: thanks for confirming that Irene used to be black. I wondered if I was going crazy.
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IIRC, Banichi did give him a substitute gun for the one he was given ( presumably thinking of ballistics testing), so unless I'm wrong in that( I don't have my books at work with me to check), it could be correct.
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It is correct. Banichi took the gun that Tabini gave Bren, and gave Bren his own gun.

The reference is page 70 of the paperback version.
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