Jamin Bogi reviewed Days Between Stations by Steve Erickson
Like a novelization to a lost David Lynch film
4 stars
Content warning Minor plot points/events
Some seriously spooky/cool moments, especially in the second half, with a bar that glows blue, bicyclists who disappear in a large city, a train that rides on for years.... Overall, not terribly surreal if you're familiar with some ideas like transmigration, prescience, the dissolution of reality into a dream place and a quick snap back, etc. The characters we get to know the best were the flattest; they seem to exist mostly as distilled flavors of sexual passion, captured in various trances that compel them to interact but leave them little freedom. Interesting use of climate-driven disasters, and how humans try to cope and stupidly carry on much as they did before. At the end, an important choice is made, and some resolution is given, but it all sort of dissolves, like a dream that you can't quite remember....
