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Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan is out and I wants it; conveniently she is giving away a copy to a random LJer anyone who'll leave a reply to that post with a name in it! Inconveniently it does not yet have a US release date (WHY NOT? ;_;) so failing that, I may have to resort to desperate measures.
The thing about Tricia Sullivan is that she writes high-concept SF that uses alternate realities, alien worlds, biological horrors etc in order to explore the things that really matter in this world - shopping, advertising, pop music, junkfood, television, and so on. She is the most relevant sf writer ever, and also - I can't think of a better word than lively, in that her prose is stupidly quotable (you may recall my Sound Mind quotespams) and she's prepared to totally confound standard story pacing (both Maul and Double Vision have final scenes that in any other book would be from a middle, and I love how open that makes them feel.) And so, much want. It will go on the list of wants that can only be satisfied in the UK (most of the rest of which is music that slsk has failed to deliver).
I am achy but today was one of those days when I woke up thinking work would be awful but it was actually pretty great. We are now solving all our problems by means of randomly moving plastic trees around.
The thing about Tricia Sullivan is that she writes high-concept SF that uses alternate realities, alien worlds, biological horrors etc in order to explore the things that really matter in this world - shopping, advertising, pop music, junkfood, television, and so on. She is the most relevant sf writer ever, and also - I can't think of a better word than lively, in that her prose is stupidly quotable (you may recall my Sound Mind quotespams) and she's prepared to totally confound standard story pacing (both Maul and Double Vision have final scenes that in any other book would be from a middle, and I love how open that makes them feel.) And so, much want. It will go on the list of wants that can only be satisfied in the UK (most of the rest of which is music that slsk has failed to deliver).
I am achy but today was one of those days when I woke up thinking work would be awful but it was actually pretty great. We are now solving all our problems by means of randomly moving plastic trees around.