![]() ![]() To me, Grace carried the novel: I could have lost my interest because of the different narrative structure but Grace kept me engaged with it. Lord chose a first person narrator, Grace, and what a delightful first person narrator she is! A woman close to middle age, full of humour but with her own weaknesses too, her voice rang incredibly true. But they are all linked by the exploring party visiting those communities and the relationships that form between the members. The narrative structure of The Best of All Possible Worlds is different in the sense that each chapter is more or less a self contained story happening within one of the communities of Cygnus Beta. Together, they will visit the different communities of the planet. There, they meet a civil servant, Grace Delarua. Some of them arrive on Cygnus Beta, a melting pot of a planet, in search of some communities who would retain enough of the Sadiri genetical traits and of their customs, to marry and to have children. They try nonetheless to rebuild their race and their society. The Sadiri have been all but wiped out from the galaxy by a sudden attack. ![]()
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