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[books 2011} more Ken McLeod
Feb. 8th, 2011 05:37 pm8. The Stone Canal by Ken Macleod
Second of four books in the Fall Revolution series - I read the first, The Star Fraction recently, and found it good but hard going.
The second volume has two story lines - the first is set in Glasgow and London from the 1970s to the 2040s (or so) and explains the point of departure from "our" world, eventually catching up with the stage it had reached in Star Fraction. The second story line follows the protagonist, Jonathan Wilde, as he wakes up in the future on New Mars in a galaxy far, far away. For the most part I preferred the first story line, but the world of New Mars is really cool too (there's a lot about AIs and robots' rights that is a bit dense).
I ripped through the first 2/3 - 3/4 of this, but struggled a bit with the last section describing Wilde's journey to New Mars - basically his body doesn't go, his mind has been put into an AI, and somehow the visuals didn't work very well for me.
I still recommend it, and will be getting volume 3 from the library as soon as I'm finished with my current pile of library books.
Second of four books in the Fall Revolution series - I read the first, The Star Fraction recently, and found it good but hard going.
The second volume has two story lines - the first is set in Glasgow and London from the 1970s to the 2040s (or so) and explains the point of departure from "our" world, eventually catching up with the stage it had reached in Star Fraction. The second story line follows the protagonist, Jonathan Wilde, as he wakes up in the future on New Mars in a galaxy far, far away. For the most part I preferred the first story line, but the world of New Mars is really cool too (there's a lot about AIs and robots' rights that is a bit dense).
I ripped through the first 2/3 - 3/4 of this, but struggled a bit with the last section describing Wilde's journey to New Mars - basically his body doesn't go, his mind has been put into an AI, and somehow the visuals didn't work very well for me.
I still recommend it, and will be getting volume 3 from the library as soon as I'm finished with my current pile of library books.
