The style is impeccable and this story and universe are dépaysants (foreign) to be
But they are not without managing to raise the sensitivity of the reader ...
Cultures and religions of this planet "work" well since they ected subtle thoughts (as in .. Orchéron later) ..
One critic calls this the usual clichés (these cultural syncretism and mixes) ... I think he should stop reading the sf precisely because it is a kind of main interests ....
It is true that it is more or less successful and it is the talent and work:
that make the difference nevertheless it remains one of the great pleasures of lovers of this genre which is not classified as noble (but as we say in English "who care ??") ...
There is a depleted French text which is superb but the top of the art of "fusion" in cultural sf:
Brothers of the earth (Galaxy-bis) or Brothers of the Earth ..
It is an impressive text for style but also for the control of historic and epic data that is the bedrock of the creative work of the author ...
