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 cra...
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Nov 01, 2011
Naberius
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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 t
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Aug 14, 2011
Craig
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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.
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