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@picklish@books.theunseen.city Well expressed. I enjoyed it quite a lot too, for the same reasons.

North gives you a detailed vocab but not really glossary. The Shine, arcspace, the Slow. You work it out, but it’s more disorienting than usual, and it helps with world building.

The technology gets the same treatment, and that’s where many readers will give up. What the Slow actually is, what happened to the narrator at the moments that determined the course his life, none of it is really ever explained. The narrator never really understands it either. He was there. He’s telling you what he remembers.

The revenge takes centuries and comes to nothing much. He lives long enough that the accounting stops making sense. The wrong is still a wrong. There’s just nobody left it means anything to.

I enjoyed this quite a lot. It’s more literary than genre in its aspirations.

I jus saw that second hand versions of this are going to AUD $800+ so it might be worth paying the replacement fee…

Inspired by recent interest in the Ulm School of Design, I went and borrowed this print book from the university library.

Worthwhile and brimming with ideas that speak to our current moment. I’ll have to sit with it for a while before writing a review.

More of a polemical slog than I’d expected.

A re-read, and one that brings home how important this book is in grounding the series in some sense of reality, bureaucracy and the mundane. It’s a necessary second work, handled well.

Charming and original. I want to see more fiction like this!

Hard to describe without spoiling. It has a propulsive style that belies the almost physical senses the words and the text evokes. Wholly original.