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I like to intersperse my reading of modern SFF with casting an eye back to how we got here, and I've never read and Edmund Cooper that I didn't enjoy. This is no exception. Beautifully economic in its narrative, this London stands beside Cooper's other Utopias as an intriguing setting to watch the characters explore. Not much in the way of character arcs, but there's no harm in having strong archetypes.

It's pretty good, but it's just so slow at the start. I didn't get any momentum at all until about pg. 70. In all the critiquing my work gets, and all the 'training' is trying to beat this stuff out of me. I guess it's the old rules are made to be broken adage, and that if you do something well enough you can get away with anything. I would not say I am hooked yet.