May. 22nd, 2018

magistrate: The arc of the Earth in dark space. (Default)
Here is an exceedingly smart novel, half an intricately-detailed xenofictive narrative and half a grinding post-apocalyptic dystopia which approaches the bleak desolation of Octavia Butler's works. It also features:
  • Antpunk industrialization
  • Alien gender politics
  • Potentially not crazed AIs
  • Definitively crazed uploaded intelligences
  • Non-uploaded intelligences where it's legitimately difficult to tell if they're crazed or not
  • The friability of memory and history
  • Extreme domestication
  • The inhumanity of man to man
  • The inhumanity of man to spiders
  • Projectile empathy
  • Couples I ship because one ate the other
  • An iterative succession of Fabians

Not recommended for arachnophobes without nanoviral therapy.

...I'm not sure why you're still reading this post and not rushing to get the book.

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