Void Star
First Written 2017
Genre Scifi
Origin US
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
My Copy library hardback
First Read July 21, 2017

Void Star

Notes

The narrative was hard to follow in places - you've got a heady combination of unreliable narrators, people who mix up their memories for real, and artificial intelligences that may or may not be human. Ultimately, both Erika and I spent a lot of time discussing this, but we couldn't piece together the final plot.

Noted on August 4, 2017

Robin Sloan put this best: For William Gibson readers, this is like a combo of his more complicated cyberpunk work, but with a CaycePollard-like character (and maybe a Bigendian villain!).

Noted on August 4, 2017

Void Star's first 20 pages is such a tour de force that it brings to mind the opening baseball scene in DeLilllo's Underworld.

Noted on August 4, 2017

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