I'm halfway through the 400 pages-- where things suddenly change. I was thinking this was the most awesome thing ever, american splendour plus maus plI'm halfway through the 400 pages-- where things suddenly change. I was thinking this was the most awesome thing ever, american splendour plus maus plus gender, and then, this is not a spoiler as it is in the description of the book up top, we have a protagonist as a jew in nazi germany. So disappointing. It was enough, and far more meaningful, to have the suffering the protagonist endures be due to being a woman and =not= being a jew. Such a lost opportunity....more
one star for a book that I started and did not finish. Nor did I get very far. Just not interested in the premise or feel of the writing, though I norone star for a book that I started and did not finish. Nor did I get very far. Just not interested in the premise or feel of the writing, though I normally like WJW.
odd thoughts:
I am beginning to develop this theory that Charles Stross and Walter Jon Williams are working together behind the scenes.
The description of this book looks like a different take on the same or eerily familiar universe as Stross's Halting State.
Likewise, Implied Spaces grappled with the same ideas behind Stross's Glasshouse. Both of the Williams books appeared well after the Stross books, so maybe it's just that Williams is using heavily Stross's ideas.
But Implied Spaces had a glowing review by Stross on the back. Not a coinicidence, I say. Somebody for some reason decided that Stross should be tapped for a review on the back of that book. There is complicity here. There is something going on....more
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