Paul reviewed Dark Is the Sun by Philip José Farmer
Review of 'Dark Is the Sun' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
While this is pitched as a story set in the (very!) far future, it reads much more like a fantasy novel and I found that the sf and fantasy elements had an annoying tendency to clash in a manner that kept jarring me out of the story.
As a fantasy novel, Dark is the Sun works pretty well. If the far future background had been dropped, then objects that were magical as far as the narrative is concerned could have been presented as magical and I would have been saved the annoyance that comes every time the author claims that humanity could have survived, unchanged, for 15 billion years.