This book did a great job with the world-building, but not such a great job with the plot-building. I’m not sure this review can describe what it was about, because I’m not entirely sure I understand what happened. But it sounded very pretty while whatever it was was happening! Far away in a beryl sky, three suns rushed madly about one another and gave a little heat to this farthest of their six planets.” We start the book with Jon Toshar, who has just escaped […]
When “You don’t like where you’ve been, the place where you are is grim, and the only place you see yourself going is not an improvement on what’s gone before,” you’re a malcontent
Out of the Dead City by Samuel R. Delaney