![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a lot of those moments scattered throughout.īut returning to the setting: are these homages, cultural touchpoints or merely assumption of an already-created universe, much like a hermit-crab assuming a new shell? Hard to say. Four hundred kilometers beyond it all, Bradbury was a lurid monster medusa oozing up over the line of the horizon.” “Nighttime towns and transit stations glimmered across the valley floor like phosphorescent deep-sea life-forms, bulking corpuscular, trailing the whip-thin antenna appendages of roads before they faded to dark where the traffic petered out and the lighting systems went to sleep in response. Occasionally I felt a bit of pastiche coming through: the ‘Swirl’ is mentioned in much the same way Amos from the Expanse talks about the ‘Churn.’ There’s a lovely and vivid sea metaphor throughout, reminding me of Watt’s Starfish, although Lovecraftian might be an even better reference, and of course, of course, Blade Runner. There were times I thought it was a little long, but I didn’t actually mind, because I am on board for Mars post-colonization dystopias. Three weeks later, I’m left thinking I liked it, but in the way one likes junk food or quick and dirty sex (which no doubt comes to mind because the lead takes time out for some lurid escapades). ![]()
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