So, by this stage in reading the books the first time around I had started to buy them in the larger format paper back. As an impoverished student before the days of Amazon, this is quite significant. Once again the thread of the story is not tightly tied to the previous book, though this time we hark back more to the first book, and get to spend some more time with the Nostalgia for Infinity and friends. Of course, by now much has happened with the inhibitors and they're starting to really make their presence felt after being prodded by young Sylveste.
In a parallel thread we get to meet some of the clever folks who made much of the travel in these books possible - the Conjoiners. However, it turns out (and this is just cool) that they only really learned how to do much of the clever stuff that they do by sending themselves back messages from the future. Go figure. So we discover that these people have known about the inhibitors for a while now, and some of them have even been making plans.
One big disappointment I found the first time around and I find again: huge chunks of the story are missing. Now, in fairness, they are probably not needed for the story to hang together and really they probably wouldn't add much, but it still feels wrong for them to not be in there. Still, a damn good read, about to embark on #4.
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