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“Inventive and solidly enjoyable… Schroeder paints his unique world with deft touches while keeping the story moving briskly.”
- Publishers Weekly
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“Inventive and solidly enjoyable… Schroeder paints his unique world with deft touches while keeping the story moving briskly.
- Publishers Weekly, on The Sunless Countries
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I loved it. It never slowed down. The background is fascinating and the characters held my attention. It reminded me a little of The Integral Trees, with technology a little more advanced.
- Larry Niven on Sun of Suns
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Schroeder...is proving to be one of our most ingenious devisers of exotic, fantastic settings as well as a spinner of ripping yarns....Schroeder's world-building, storytelling, and character-drawing chops seem strong enough to give even Known Space a run for its money.
- Locus on Queen of Candesce
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[The] world-building continues to be impeccable, and the story's timing is a fantastic tour de force of his creation. The politics and structure of Virga continue to be a fine backdrop to some of the most entertaining space opera out there.
- Booklist on Pirate Sun
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Ashes of Candesce brings the Virga saga to an operatic, crashing finale; a splendid climax to the hard SF saga of the decade!
- Charles Stross on Ashes of Candesce
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A delight, a source of seemingly endless invention….
- Locus on Pirate Sun
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With Queen of Candesce, Karl Schroeder's Virga saga establishes itself as an SF saga of the same order as LeGuin's Earthsea series, Asimov's Robot stories, and Niven's Ringworld stories.
- SFRevu
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A fantastically alchemical tale set in a strange yet utterly real world. Hayden is a complex and well-developed protagonist and Schroeder is a amazingly detailed writer whose world-building is superb.
- RT Reviews on Sun of Suns