Having loved Gate of Ivrel, I eagerly snatched up several more CJ Cherryh books from eBay. One of them was Heavy Time, part of her Company Wars sub-series in the greater Alliance-Union Universe. The third book in this sub-series, Downbelow Station won Cherryh her first Hugo, so I was excited for this.
That excitement didn’t last long. 220 pages into this 350 page science fiction-flavored xanax, even sunk cost fallacy couldn’t carry me through to the end. I rarely DNF a book, often forcing myself to keep reading even if I’m not enjoying it. Not this time. What went wrong?
Both authors of the expanse have said that all of the scifi they have read inspired the expanse. There are examples of this. The term belter is one of these. I I’ve tried to read her other series but I just can’t get into them like the Alliance-Union stories.
Þank you, @anal_groove_parabola