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A Year In The Linear City 3/5The Tain 3/5Firing The Cathedral 1/5V.A.O. 1/5
Right lets start this one again (suffered some serious procrastination there)..I have had this book for some time now although it wasnt till I decided to read it and add it to GR that I realised HOW long I had owned it. Yes go on and check,Anyway it is part of a project by Peter Crowther called Fouresight (thats one to fight the auto correct over) which takes four prominent authors and gets them to write a story on a particular subject - in this case cities. I will admit I think its a rather aud...
This is a collection of four novellas about cities. There are two really good ones in here -- A Year in the Linear City, by Paul Di Filippo, and The Tain, by China Mieville.
Cities is a very strange anthology of four longish speculative stories with urban themes. Three of those stories are excellent, and one is awful (the latter being the only thing preventing tis from being a 5-star book).A Year In The Linear City (Paul Di Filippo) is an amazing exploration of a one-dimensional city, with Hell on one side and Heaven on the other. The protagonist, a writer of speculative fiction, imagines worlds that aren't one-dimensional. The result is a fascinating, weird, and hi...
I enjoyed there out of the four stories... I still have no clue what happened in the third story....
This quartet leads off with "A Year In The Linear City" by Paul Di Filippo. It's a charmingly odd story set in a curiously odd world. The best of the lot. Next up is "The Tain" by China Miéville. I think many people would prefer this one, but I'm always bored by Miéville's London book and he squanders an interesting idea on London here. Also vampires. "Firing The Cathedral" is Moorcock's response to the Western governments' response to 9/11. Unfortunately, he forgot to include a story or any com...
Cyberpunks, steampunks, both the old guard and the new; four short stories gathered together around the (sometimes tenuous) theme of the city. I was familiar with some of the writers, not with others. The results surprised me at times based on what little assumptions I had, but generally this unusual compilation -bound like a coffee table book - was fairly enjoyable.
I abandoned the first story at page 8, too hard to read, story obfuscated by literary allusion.The second story was good, a mind boggling idea made real.so far the third has me hooked on the multiple quotes which seem to bear little relationship to the story if there is one? I abandoned the third story as well, actually, I couldn't find a story but the multiple quotes at the head of each chapter were interesting, I nearly threw the book away at this point. I'm glad I didn't. Ryman's V.A.O. is a
"A Year in the Linear City" by Paul di Filippo - 2.5/5 stars.It was an interesting story, and I thought the premise was definitely its main highlight. I really enjoy the concept of huge, dystopian cities. I didn't particularly vibe with any of the characters, though, and was slightly frustrated by the male/female dynamic. The men were definitely more real than the women..."The Tain" by China Miéville - 3/5 stars. This story was the reason I picked up this book in the first place, so I admit I wa...
