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Much better than the first one, with a nicer setting. It’s still incredibly predictable to anyone who’s ever consumed any pop culture at all, and heavily driven by tropes, but that’s also kind of relaxing.

You know when you’re just tired of having bread with dietary fibres and just want to have pure wheat flour? This is...pure wheat flour.

Trope-intensive but suspenseful. I wish it would have expected a bit more from the reader.

I didn’t understand anything but I kind of like DeWitt.

En helt okej novellsamling som inte alls är lika bra som de andra jag läst av Borges. Det känns litterärt på ett mest bajsnödigt och jobbigt sätt.

Science fiction rests on suspended disbelief, and Charlie Jane Anders toys with that concept with a level of creativity I have never seen before. The world in this book feels plausible, and the world-building is amazing. But more importantly Charlie Jane uses tropes and their subversion expertly. In particular, I appreciated how the book deals with themes like friendship, trauma and healing, and relations in general in a way that felt more mature than any science fiction I think I have read before.

This feels like a science fiction that finally plays with a full hand of sciences, not just imaginary pseudo-physics.

Charmingly confusing and very Gibsonian.

Also, this is the first book I’ve read where people use bathrooms often enough to make me notice.