Alright, so - Worldwired and Narnia
Dec. 19th, 2005 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbA while ago I said I'd try to say something about Narnia and Worldwired. But I'm suffering from a wee bit of braindeath, right now, so via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
karentraviss, a review of Narnia, TLTW&TW:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/nicklocking/86724.html. Warning: contains strong language.
And now on to Elizabeth Bear's (matociquala) most excellent novel Worldwired:
The short version: Read it. Buy it.
The long version:
I loved this book. I liked it so much I find it hard to say anything coherent about it, and just sort of warble enthusiastically whenever I try. But, warbling should not form the main part of this post, so I'll try to be intelligent.
After the catastrophic events of Scardown, you'd think Jenny Casey et al deserved a bit of peace. Not so. The stakes are as high as they've ever been, and will get higher before the end.
It's a complex, tricksy book. There's not much black and white, part of the reason I liked it so much. The characters are strong, well-drawn; no caricatures here. You can believe they're people, and they live and grow and hurt and change.
There are gunfights and AIs and really really alien aliens, and at the end, grace and a sense of completion.
Walking through the water. Trying to get across.
Just like everybody else.
Okay, I warbled, didn't I? Oh, well...
----
Interestingly enough, I saw a copy of Worldwired in Hodges Figgis in Dublin today. This, mere weeks after they told me they couldn't possibly order it in for me. Ahem. Is there something wrong with this picture, or is it just me?
karentraviss, a review of Narnia, TLTW&TW:http://www.livejournal.com/users/nicklocking/86724.html. Warning: contains strong language.
And now on to Elizabeth Bear's (
matociquala) most excellent novel Worldwired:The short version: Read it. Buy it.
The long version:
I loved this book. I liked it so much I find it hard to say anything coherent about it, and just sort of warble enthusiastically whenever I try. But, warbling should not form the main part of this post, so I'll try to be intelligent.
After the catastrophic events of Scardown, you'd think Jenny Casey et al deserved a bit of peace. Not so. The stakes are as high as they've ever been, and will get higher before the end.
It's a complex, tricksy book. There's not much black and white, part of the reason I liked it so much. The characters are strong, well-drawn; no caricatures here. You can believe they're people, and they live and grow and hurt and change.
There are gunfights and AIs and really really alien aliens, and at the end, grace and a sense of completion.
Walking through the water. Trying to get across.
Just like everybody else.
Okay, I warbled, didn't I? Oh, well...
----
Interestingly enough, I saw a copy of Worldwired in Hodges Figgis in Dublin today. This, mere weeks after they told me they couldn't possibly order it in for me. Ahem. Is there something wrong with this picture, or is it just me?
