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When it’s $0.99 or even $2.99 as an e–Book, sure seemed like a good idea at the time.
First notion? Like Station Eleven.
“Scott says that before you come to New York all you know of it are movie stereotypes, then when you get here you realize they’re all true.” Page 40.
Yes. Post-apocalyptic timing, but some things never change.
In our post-modern cybernetic hyper-connected ADD world? Telling a story is increasingly difficult; trying — then picking up that narrative thread? But in a thoroughly modern manner, this novel picks at that very thread until the jumper starts to unravel.
Advertised to me as a Guardian pick for the year, it is, in some ways, very British. Or UK, even. Sort of.
Updated 1984 with a leavening agent called “Snowden?”
Neuromancer and its subsequent canons come to mind, that excellence in writing.
“Good art is produced under strict limits. Forces you to work with what you’ve got, to focus, right?” Page 166.
Artistic aside? But yes, enforced limits. Sidebar to the sidebar from that British Novelist. Really do enjoy his author blog, well written, by a brilliant person.
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A stellar look at what our future might be?
“It was an unending, unrecordable mishmash of technical knowledge and folklore, engineering skills and oral history, acoustic science and superstition.” Page 327.
The sweet irony of the novel itself best digested in digital format?
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