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After years in the house in Ely, Robert has just one last wish; a wish that will reveal what Sara truly wants as well. It is the end for them, one way or another, but first there is one more story to tell; a story about the most powerful human who ever lived. Mavic Chen, The Guardian of the Solar System.
Mavic Chen is a problematic villain, not least because of his almost pantomime 'multiracial' appearance (he was a white actor in simultaneous brown- and yellow-face make-up, in order to give the terrestrial villain no single ethnic background), but here he is played as the sum of his personality traits and not the physical. He is arrogant, ruthless, assured and a consummate politician. In the end, however, he is not the antagonist of this story. The enemy in this play is time; inevitability. It is a story about choice, or rather the lack of it, from Robert's feeling of being trapped by a promise made to save his daughter, to Sara's futile attempts to escape from a loop in time.
Like the other stories in the trilogy (Home Truths, The Drowned World) the framing narrative has its own story, separate from the main story, but thematically linked. The relationship between Sara and Robert and the House is as important as anything in the tale of Mavic Chen and the Earth's baroque economic linchpin, the master clock, and like the Leela trilogy, Sara's story has an open ending.
Next, Wendy Padbury returns as Zoe in Echoes of Grey.
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