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Interesting concept, despite anyone who watched or read The Diving Bell and the Butterfly would know what lock in looks like. Wrapping it in a police procedural with some witty banters and making it readable for 90% of the time is still a feat. Hence the three stars because I did like the novel enough.
The idea of a community of people who could live in two realms even since birth is pretty fascinating. And I wonder how the Agora looks like. Is it something like the, let's say, schools in Ready ...more
The idea of a community of people who could live in two realms even since birth is pretty fascinating. And I wonder how the Agora looks like. Is it something like the, let's say, schools in Ready ...more
The author, John Scalzi, discusses the role that gender plays (or, more specifically, doesn't play,) in this book and the second installment, Head On, in this blog post from Tor.com. Highly recommended!
https://www.torforgeblog.com/2018/04/...
I cannot stress enough just how taken aback I am by the originality and creativity behind this. I simply MUST read these books! ...more
I considered this book quite prophetic and it is a pity I didn't read this before 2020. I would have been so much more prepared to deal with everything that this book foresaw if I had.
One metaphor I considered very interesting is that with Haden Syndrome people were paralysed, not leaving their bodies and houses and doing everything online and this had a similar feeling to what happened during Lockdown, people still could move their bodies but were less able to leave their houses and were meeti ...more
One metaphor I considered very interesting is that with Haden Syndrome people were paralysed, not leaving their bodies and houses and doing everything online and this had a similar feeling to what happened during Lockdown, people still could move their bodies but were less able to leave their houses and were meeti ...more
So good I read it in one sitting. The treatment of the differently abled, LGBTQIA, and POC was excellent. The characters and premise were real and absorbing. Hope we get more from this universe!
Nov 06, 2014
Cobwebs-Iced-Across-SpaceTime
marked it as to-read
Jun 24, 2015
ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)
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Jan 31, 2016
Jessica
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Nov 17, 2016
Clare
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Mar 18, 2019
Zachary
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Feb 04, 2024
Maryum
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