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Ian McDonald: Hopeland (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tor Books) 4 stars

A time-traveling, futuristic saga of a family trying to outlast and remake a universe with …

A grand hopeful mess

4 stars

This novel really set a hook early in with crazy parkour electromancer battles, then sort of jumps sideways in a disconcerting series of lines of love stories, epic familial curses, climate emergency, corporate empires, heroic coups and and and and.