Elysium Lib/E: Or, the World After (Audiobook)

from nkmunn

More like music than a novel? Structured like a musical composition rather than prose.The rapid fire staging, the way the scenes are set, the lights come on and then "action " is more the stuff of the stage or film than prose as well .I enjoyed tremendously the author's form and genre-breaking wa...

from ScoLgo

A strangely scattered narrative that does finally come together in the end. The recursive situations woven around shifting characters was confusing at first but, after a while, begin to make sense due to the underlying consistencies threaded throughout the various vignettes. Hints abound but full...

from quondame

The blurb says this is ambitious. It doesn't say whether it achieves those ambitions, and I'd say it doesn't, just circles around them, forgiven by conceit from actually saying anything but Adrian misses Antoine. The computer bits would have sucked in the 70s.

from Gretchening

I read this back in April while I was at AdaCamp. It was good travel reading!It's hard to describe this book without spoiling it, but in brief, it's basically an increasingly layered destabilized reiterative experience. There are three or so personalities at play in each of many versions of a lif...

from Gretchening

I read this back in April while I was at AdaCamp. It was good travel reading!It's hard to describe this book without spoiling it, but in brief, it's basically an increasingly layered destabilized reiterative experience. There are three or so personalities at play in each of many versions of a lif...