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I finished Seeds of Destiny last night. These books have really been going downhill, and I’m glad this was the last one. Once again, Easton has moved ahead in time by about 100 years — the Gypsies have all but vanished from the stage, and the species that they had raised to sentience has now come into its own as a civilization. However, the Engineers back on Earth have (somehow) managed to find their planet, and decide to send a force there to destroy them. It’s unclear why they want to do this, and it seems like a huge waste to me, but hey, Easton’s characters do all kinds of dumb shit like that all the time.
Anyways, the Engineers get to First-Stop and proceed to thrash the Racs (although they call them “coons” (get it?)). However, their own hubris and the Racs’ natural tenacity leads to the humans’ eventual downfall, but not without losses to the good… Fuck it, it’s stupid and obvious.
Anyways, now I’m reading Brian Craig’s The Wine of Dreams, which is a novel set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe. It’s ok.