496 pages
English language
Published Aug. 15, 2017 by Del Rey.
Each chapter gives a totally different perspective, and they're all very well-written. A deeply troubling masterwork.
The style is probably my favourite aspect of this excellent book. Each of the six stories on which it is built could be a novella in its own right. Each is different, beautifully written, captivating, horrible, funny, deeply weird. It's the Canterbury Tales in space, yes, but also it's heartbreaking, sexy, political. It's aged really well. It's very hetero, but honestly it's also a tiny bit camp. The only thing I have to say against this book is the cliffhanger ending, but Simmons clearly has so much more time to spend in this incredible world, so I can't really hold that against him.
