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Apr 24, 2017
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The one thing I know for sure about this slow burn of a science fiction novel is that it's definitely not going to be toevery reader's taste. It feels strongly like there are two ingenious premises bolted together in a way that more or less works, but the characters are almost an afterthought. The first premise (and the one that sucked me in), is that the book opens with a city (the scale isn't really clear until near the end) that is continuously winched along a set of railroad tracks.
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A city moves along a railroad track in constant, laborious progress, attempting to keep up with something called “the optimum” – or risk losing pace and falling victim to a gravitational field that has warped space and time. This is a truly bizarre work of science fiction that jumps between multiple narrative styles in telling a story that is both grounded in its characters yet intellectually and creatively provocative in its conceit. At times, I felt like I was reading Leigh Brackett’s The Long
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Kathy Jo
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Vesra (When She Reads)
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Jocelyn
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