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So much that could have been explored here but wasn't. 80% of the book is two pairs of people with relationship issues. We finally get to the titular City at more than 300 pages into a 360 page book, leave it again 30 pages later, only to go back to the relationships and conclude with the big issues (environmental, political, cultural) unaddressed. Well enough written that I stuck with it but still so disappointed.
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This book reads much better as a work of queer fiction than as a science fiction novel. As a standalone sf novel, it's... not great. It has incredibly unlikable and unsympathetic main characters who are lost in the alleys of their own self absorption and who overshadow an interesting-ish universe with their unbelievable problems. The world, which has glimmers of many interesting ideas, sits in a too-distant backdrop and comes to the forefront when convenient for plot.
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