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Set on a distant planet, far in the future, West of January tells the story of a world in which time moves very slowly. Because it takes a lifetime for each region of the planet to experience dawn, midday and dusk, the planet's population does not remember the catastrophes that occur as the sun moves across the sky-entire civilizations have been scorched into oblivion. The only people who remember the dangers of the past are the planet's "angels"-a people who have tried to preserve past technologies to save the planet. This action-filled story of a very strange planet showcases Duncan's remarkable ability to create unique worlds.
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Patrick Daniels
reviewed West of January on July 18, 2016
West of January
I've always liked Duncan's SF, and finally got around to this one [in 2005]. This is a classic hardscrabble-colony story, set on a resonance-tidelocked planet, where the habitable zone migrates around the world. In their struggle to survive, the colonists have lost most of their technology. The protag is a neolithic-level herdsman, just coming-of-age. He has an untypically upwardly-mobile career.
There are no real surprises here, but good, clean, workmanlike writing that moves right along to an implausible (but fun) power-fantasy wrapup. Time for are-read, I think. Review written in 2005.
Here's an enthusiastic review by John Toon, at Infinity Plus:
"This is an astonishing exercise in world-building, rich and bold in design, and a complex and emotional biography of its protagonist..."
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