[books 2009] Ken Macleod
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inulro44 & 45. Dark Light and Engine City by Ken Macleod
The second and third volumes in the Engines of Light trilogy. Like Cosmonaut Keep, Dark Light takes a while to get going, but it's really good when it does.
There's lots of interesting concepts in here - including a society where gender is determined by social role rather than sex (the down side being, the single defining criteria for being "male" is being willing to kill for not a particularly good reason), making space suits with stone age technology, and there being an academic way to express the concept of messing with people's minds: guerilla ontology.
The pacing is a bit odd in bits, and I was disappointed by Nova Babylonia when they finally got there (Mingulay and Croatan are much more interesting), but overall I love this series.
I'll be starting The Night Sessions as soon as I can.
The second and third volumes in the Engines of Light trilogy. Like Cosmonaut Keep, Dark Light takes a while to get going, but it's really good when it does.
There's lots of interesting concepts in here - including a society where gender is determined by social role rather than sex (the down side being, the single defining criteria for being "male" is being willing to kill for not a particularly good reason), making space suits with stone age technology, and there being an academic way to express the concept of messing with people's minds: guerilla ontology.
The pacing is a bit odd in bits, and I was disappointed by Nova Babylonia when they finally got there (Mingulay and Croatan are much more interesting), but overall I love this series.
I'll be starting The Night Sessions as soon as I can.
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Date: 2009-08-24 09:05 pm (UTC)