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I grabbed this without much consideration and got embarrassingly far through it before I got the Dickens heritage. If I read David Copperfield I've forgotten it, but if it explores real societal issues through the eyes of kids as well as this story does, it would be worth a comparison to get a sense of how the problems have evolved. It's not just problems though, they are lived by good characters.

I get the metaphorical value of power over geological processes, but it feels somehow ungainly so far. Hoping the characters win me over.

Multiple recommendations, most recent from my cousin Anneke.

Pretty good for an airport pick. As a lover of walking, deserts, and mountains I wanted more detail of travel challenges and geography. The theme of aloneness was good and reminded me a little of Lauren Groff’s “The Vaster Wilds”.

recommended by Jason Lemieux

Picked at the Denver airport Tattered cover

I’m surprised to discover Kara Swisher now, a sign of how little I partake of media coverage of the world I live and work in. This book gave me new perspective on my own lived experience of the tech world. It’s clearly through a very Swisher-colored lens, but I enjoy her swagger and could learn from her example to act on my assessments, imperfect as they may be.

This is a character driven story in a dystopian, desert inspired multiverse. I liked the characters and it holds together well for the most part. For a multiverse premise the world(s) felt too small to me, which serves the story but maybe diminishes the mood. I really like the mysterious liminal space as a character in itself, which tempts me to continue the series.

Heard a nice review on Postcards from the Wind.

A satisfying and thought-provoking second installment.

The strangest mashup of history and futuristic sci-fi I've read. Chock full of philosophy, ethics, religion, gender, and politics with some supernatural forces thrown in like a potent catalyst. Fascination trumps plausibility, but the historical references insist that we consider what worlds our ideas might conceive.