kzt wrote:The character who teleports across the galaxy from chapter to chapter is just a lack of editing. It's not my favorite book, but it's not my least favorite either.
You're correct on the editing point. Eric initially structured the first part of the book based on a misunderstanding of the transit times involved, particularly for Michelle coming in from the Talbott Quadrant. When I realized we had a problem there, chapters started getting ripped apart and put back together in a completely different order, and that happened several times, not just once. So we had scenes which were moved earlier and later than they were originally sequenced, and that ended up with more than one character in two star systems at once, actually. There were a lot of reasons the book got a very late state and we were up against a hard release deadline, so we were sort of editing on the fly and none of us caught the continuity error.