Apollo reviewed Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Jesse Kirkwood
A Conservative, Strange Speculative Novel
2 stars
Qudan packs a lot of speculation about language, meaning, and time into this novel, but from the beginning it struck me as having a particularly conservative perspective. There's a lot to like in the skepticism about AI, but the takes on prisoner welfare and UBI were decidedly off-putting. Learning later that the author admired far-right figure Mishima Yukio re-enforced my uneasiness with the book.