Delvers such as the crew of the Revenger would explore these worlds, trying to claim their secrets and the precious, coin-like quoins. These baubles, protected by esoteric shields and other wards, only opened to outsiders for narrow bands of time. I loved the first book in this series because it was full of exploration of baubles worlds with ancient secrets and fantastic technology that had been locked away from the regular universe. In the last book, the local economy was inadvertently smashed by the “we’re not pirates … but we’re totally pirates” crew of the black-sailed Revenger. Civilization has risen and fallen multiple times, leaving behind valuable detritus to those willing to risk dangers terrible and strange. Bone Silenceīone Silence ( Amazon), the third novel in Alastair Reynolds’ Revenger series, returns us to the universe of the Congregation and solar system in which the major planets have been dismantled and replaced by thousands of orbital habitats. Overall, it’s an enjoyable read and it gave me some ideas for my own day job, but The Phoenix Project is the better book. Kim tries the same structure here, but it’s not as successful (partially because we already saw that trick in the Phoenix Project, and partially because this time around, the mentor simply gives them the answers. It followed a mentor/mentoree model in which the mentor periodically showed up to dole out advice and pose tough questions before disappearing for a few chapters. Goldratt’s The Goal, which was a novel from the 1980s that fictionalized introducing Lean principles into a manufacturing plant. In The Phoenix Project, the authors echoed the structure of Eliyahu M. The Fourth Ideal – Psychological Safety.
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