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I have read Pursuit of the Pankera so you don't have to. The short version: The first third is exactly the same as NOTB, then becomes a much better book for the middle half, before becoming a much worse book in the last several chapters.
This is not a review so much as a comparison, and I am spoiling both books very thoroughly.
( first some context )
( and now the discussion )
To sum up, Pursuit of the Pankera fails to work as anything other than a poorly developed frightened white man's "aliens as stand ins for scary brown people/yellow peril/urban blacks" trope. You are better off not reading it unless you want to see the Mary Sue-ish fanfiction in the middle section.
This is not a review so much as a comparison, and I am spoiling both books very thoroughly.
( first some context )
( and now the discussion )
To sum up, Pursuit of the Pankera fails to work as anything other than a poorly developed frightened white man's "aliens as stand ins for scary brown people/yellow peril/urban blacks" trope. You are better off not reading it unless you want to see the Mary Sue-ish fanfiction in the middle section.
