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I just started Fire Upon the Deep yesterday. It's confusing, and I don't know why so many people seem to like it. I'm not really having fun because I don't know what's going on and I can't keep anything or anyone straight. The plot threads have no obvious connection to each other and the author seems to be having way too much fun tantalizing me with incomplete worldbuilding details. I'm up to page 109: someone tell me what makes the other 500 pages worth reading, please.
I read it last month and really enjoyed it. I didn't have much trouble keeping track of names and places*, and I liked the epic scale. The depictions of superintelligences were better than a lot of others I've seen, and the aliens were, if humanlike in their behavior, interesting in their physiology. The "tantalizing me with incomplete world-building details" was a plus for me, but if it's not to your taste that's understandable.
*There is one thing I never understood though: ubj Gjveyvc bs gur Zvfgf' pbzzragf nobhg urkncbqvn jrer eryrinag. V tbg gung rl jnf evtug nobhg gur mbar fgbezf orvat eryngrq gb gur oyvtug, naq gigebcrf fnlf Gjveyvc jnf evtug nobhg rirelguvat, ohg V qba'g frr jurer urkncbqvn pbzrf va. Could someone explain that?
Gur npghny pneevref bs gur Oyvtug jrer gur Fxebqrf, juvpu unir fvk jurryf. Fvk yrtf jnf n genafyngvba reebe.
Oh, that makes sense! Thanks.