Ex Libris Kirkland

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First Written 2017
Genre Scifi
Origin US
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-10 0374285063
ISBN-13 978-0374285067
My Copy library hardback
First Read July 21, 2017

Void Star



The narrative was hard to follow in places - you've got a heady combination of unreliable narrators, people who mix up their memories for real, and artificial intelligences that may or may not be human. Ultimately, both Erika and I spent a lot of time discussing this, but we couldn't piece together the final plot.

Noted on August 4, 2017

Robin Sloan put this best: For William Gibson readers, this is like a combo of his more complicated cyberpunk work, but with a CaycePollard-like character (and maybe a Bigendian villain!).

Noted on August 4, 2017

Void Star's first 20 pages is such a tour de force that it brings to mind the opening baseball scene in DeLilllo's Underworld.

Noted on August 4, 2017


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