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At the furthest reaches of the galaxy exist the Thousand Cultures, societies scattered across 31 inhabited worlds in 25 star systems. The Inner Complex - which includes Earth - has been able to exert control over the Thousand Cultures because it contains 90% of all human population and because all traffic must pass through it. But humanity is expanding and the complexes are beginning to fight over access to the frontier worlds. Giraut and Margaret are posted to the frontline - Quidde, base of Chaka Home: a culture based on a Millennialist black American sect claiming spiritual descent from Chaka Zulu's army. But they aren't the only culture on Quidde and history looks very much like repeating itself as three factions engage in a struggle that echoes the bloody twentieth century wars in Rwanda and Bosnia. Giraut and Margaret must hunt out the last vestiges of good in a corrupt world - or risk seeing humanity as we know it disappear forever.

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At the furthest reaches of the galaxy exist the Thousand Cultures, societies scattered across 31 inhabited worlds in 25 star systems. The Inner Complex - which includes Earth - has been able to exert control over the Thousand Cultures because it contains 90 per cent of all human population and because all traffic must pass through it. But humanity is expanding and the complexes are beginning to fight over access to the frontier worlds. Giraut and Margaret are posted to the frontline - Quidde, base of Chaka Home: a culture based on a Millennialist black American sect claiming spiritual descent from Chaka Zulu's army. But they aren't the only culture on Quidde and history looks very much like repeating itself as three factions engage in a struggle that echoes the bloody twentieth century wars in Rwanda and Bosnia. Giraut and Margaret must hunt out the last vestiges of good in a corrupt world - or risk seeing humanity as we know it disappear forever.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Interesting, but unfortunate., 16 Jun 1999 By A Customer The ideas in this book are interesting: a huge interstellar culture discovers instantanous transportation and so must attempt to pacify the agressive elements on far flung posts of the former expansion. However, this book suffers from mediocraty. The story is a little depressing and dark, without being briliantly so as in Consider Plebias (Ian Banks). The charicters are not particularly strongly developed and are a little one dimensional. The book ends rather abruptly, like the author reached the word limit and had to round up.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Good follow-up to 'A Million Open Doors', 10 May 1999 By A Customer If you haven't read 'A Million Open Doors', stop now. Go read that, and find out about the Thousand Cultures of humanity and the attempts to reunify them now that the 'springer', the hoary old sci-fi gimmick of instantaneous transport, has put them back in touch. OK, so now to EMOG. The main characters of AMOD, Giraut and Margaret, are sent to the bum-hole of the universe, an isolated world with little habitable land and two mutually antagonistic cultures, one Tamil and one Mayan. The progress of their diplomatic mission is set against their attempts to save their marriage and the results, while not remotely unexpected, leave you with a sense of sadness and horror. A beautifully painted book, with wonderful descriptions of the clashing cultures and a supporting cast that are more believable that the protagonists. It made me feel as if I was in high-tech version of 15th century Asian or American cities: definitely worth a read.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (