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337 voters
Smoketown
by
Tenea D. Johnson (Goodreads Author)
The city of Leiodare is unlike any other in the post-climate change United State. Within its boundaries, birds are outlawed and what was once a crater in Appalachia is now a tropical, glittering metropolis where Anna Armour is waiting. An artist by passion and a factory worker by trade, Anna is a woman of special gifts. She has chosen this beautiful, traumatized city to wa...more
Paperback, 197 pages
Published
July 26th 2011
by Blind Eye Books
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This book reminded me a lot of what I like about many of China Mieville's books: a fascinating setting that is both intriguing and disturbing, and a story that completely captures me. As you can see from the above summary, there are multiple characters in this story who encounter each other, and whose stories are intertwined and woven into each other, as well. Anna is, I feel, the real main character in the story -- we get to know her as the story progresses, and she is the focus of much of the...more
Smoketown, the debut novel of Tenea D. Johnson, belongs in a rare subset of speculative fiction novels that examine the relationship between art and society. These books include Pat Murphy's The City, Not Long After and a number of Samuel R. Delany's work, most notably Dhalgren. Smoketown, like the aforementioned works, blurs the boundaries between perception, magic and science, and the futuristic/transformed landscape is both a living metaphor and geography.
Anna Armour, an artist, is at the ce...more
Anna Armour, an artist, is at the ce...more
I've been trying to figure out how to talk about this book. I always have this problem with books that surprise and astound me. Confident but subtle style and world-building. Compelling and complex characters. Entangled stories that weave together to create a fascinating larger story that builds to a breathless climax. I still can't believe this is a first novel.
A dystopian sci-fi geared toward adults, the futuristic Appalachia in this book is fascinating.
Dreamlike storytelling with empathetic characters.
amazing. this is a well crafted, one sitting book.
Great story!
Apr 29, 2013
Andrea
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Can't get into it. Will try again at some point.
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