It is not download Guthrie but Kyra Davis that fights the last space battle against anti-Guthrie. This feels like an anti-climax to her and maybe to the reader. I would have found a philosophical confrontation more satisfying than a physical conflict. But there is more. Kyra, puzzled by how easily she has defeated her antagonist, wonders whether, even in his inorganic state, the reprogrammed download has succumbed to rage or recklessness. Or should we conclude that he has suddenly realized his own inauthenticity and just given up? And is this too convenient a resolution of the problem of the anti-Guthrie?
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Kaor, Paul!
A point I Hope to remember or think of the next time I reread HARVEST OF STARS. Perhaps the real confrontation was when the captured anti-Guthrie met the real download.
Ad astra! Sean
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