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        l read the book decades ago as it came out and still have some vivid images in my head of the described middle ages environment.

        Given that I usually forget the detailed contents of books I read after some weeks already, it means it must have been pretty good! :-)

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          It has been really good, yeah.

          I bought it and Airframe by the same author, and I had to drop Airframe as I found the general premise of the book too incorrect.

          To avoid spoilers I won’t go into detail of the specific issues I had with it.

          Before that I listened through Neuromancer and Dune.

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            Never read Dune, but Neuromancer was one of the first SF-books ever that I got to read, back in the late 80s.
            Needless to say that it adequately blew my mind…

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              Dune is a weird story mixing sci-fi, fantasy and religion, it isn’t my favorite sci-fi work, but it is a great work.

              Neuromancer, the environment is fantastic, brilliant, but never got into the story.

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                As you seem not to be frightened by large books and also seem to like books with historic setting before scientific background, I would strongly recommend you the “Baroque” cycle by Neal Stephenson.
                Not sure if there is a good audiobook version of it though…