Do you have a favourite moment from these chapters? We’re treated to a few d énouement-style scenes in closing, where each of the previously stranded travellers (and Ouloo!) stay in contact by way of favours and gifts. So yeah, this was all perfectly satisfactory from my point of view. In this instance, it enabled them to move on to talk about Pei’s dilemma and Speaker’s thoughts on that turn out to be the very thing Pei needed to hear. This kind of resolution is always interesting to me, because neither character has changed their mind, they’ve just made the effort to move around the obstacle so they can continue communicating because circumstances make it impossible not to. I’ve read enough of her work now to know that the arguments are rarely the important bit – it’s how people get past their differences of opinion that matters…Īnd regarding their subsequent conversation, in which an understanding of sorts is reached, how do you feel about that particular resolution? How satisfactory was it for you?
This reaction was definitely informed by my expectations of Chambers. I could see where both Pei and Speaker were coming from, but honestly, it didn’t feel important enough to the book that I become invested by taking a side.
They just had different feelings about a complex situation that isn’t going to be fixed by either opinion. I like both characters, and didn’t really enjoy reading their disagreement, but neither of them seemed right or wrong to me. I didn’t really feel one way or the other about their argument.
What were your thoughts/feelings on their argument? Do you think either of them were in the right regarding their views?
Week 3: “Compounded System Failure” to the end The tension previously hinted at between Pei and Speaker finally comes to a head. So, let’s not hang about here – Lisa’s asking the questions for this final leg of the discussion … hopefully I don’t have to warn you that there will be SPOILERS for here on out … It’s the last week of the SciFi Month read-along, and our travellers are ready to go their separate ways.
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