The Light Ages
by Ian R. MacLeod
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Read in January, 2006
MacLeod's prose is fantastic (especially for a sci-fi/fantasy author - sorry genre, but its true), and the world he has invented is riviting and believable. By replacing the industrial revolution's technology with magic and exploring the same social-economic and class issues, MacLeod does what weird fiction should ultimately aspire to - force the reader to re-examine the world they live in, and understand our world through a new and illuminating lens.
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Read in October, 2007
Best described as an urban science fiction/fantasy. I was easily pulled in and convinced of the reality of the world setting. Similar enough to our own time/space to leave me constantly questioning whether it was our world afterall. A little political, but in just the right way to make one believe he really can effect change.
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Read in April, 2006
recommends it for:
fans of literate fantasy
If Dickens wrote a fantasy novel, this is what it might have been like. England is in the midst of an industrial revolution, powered by a magical substance called aether. Working class Robert Borrows becomes obsessed with the magical Annalise, even as he grows into a revolutionary determined to bring about a New Age.
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This took a while to read -- it got stuck on the "come back to later" pile for ages. It's an OK book, and someday I need to put together a list of "anachronistic science-fantasy that rereads the French / Russian revolution" because, really, there are a lot of those.
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Read in September, 2007
Highly unusual fantasy. The story wanders but is entertaining and keeps you curious about where it's going. A rather unusual ending to boot. The writing is at least as good as most good fantasy, but it over-reaches occasionally.
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My thoughts (oh if he had left well enough alone and never written the sequel):
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Alternative history SF/F. I wasn't a huge fan of the style, but the story was solid and the ideas were great.
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