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Blew me away, 15. Mai 2000
First I read Vacuum Flowers, which amazed me: humans vs. Earth. Then I found The Iron Dragon's Daughter, and read that. I hate most fantasy, but TIDD was, again, amazing.Stations of the Tide left me agape, jaw hanging open, eyes bugged out. I read it voraciously, thinking, Me o my, this is the best sf I've ever read. Not hard sf, oh no, but in my eyes, Swanwick is the best, bar none, auteur of space opera. I like Swanwick's jump-cut style and transcendent themes. Amazing, simply amazing. And let's face it: I *want* that briefcase.
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Blew me away, 15. Mai 2000
First I read Vacuum Flowers, which amazed me: humans vs. Earth. Then I found The Iron Dragon's Daughter, and read that. I hate most fantasy, but TIDD was, again, amazing.Stations of the Tide left me agape, jaw hanging open, eyes bugged out. I read it voraciously, thinking, Me o my, this is the best sf I've ever read. Not hard sf, oh no, but in my eyes, Swanwick is the best, bar none, auteur of space opera. I like Swanwick's jump-cut style and transcendent themes. Amazing, simply amazing. And let's face it: I *want* that briefcase.
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It didn't win the nebula for nothing!!!, 2. Mai 1999
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Wow! Any book who's coolest character is a briefcase seriously needs checking out! This is the book that earned Michael Swanwick all the praise that the science fiction community so lavishly distinguishes him with. The book takes place in the distant future of the world he created in "Vacuum Flowers" but you don't have to read that book at all. It is a totally different story. (In fact I read this one first, a really cool combination). The book follows the 'bureaucrat' as he searches the doomed oceanic world of Miranda for a wizardlike scientist by the name of Gregorian, who has stolen "unperscribed" technology. Sounds confusing? Boring? WRONG! This book is nothing at all like what it seems. Halfway through the book you are still trying to guess what it's REALLY about, but not in a yawning type way like a lot of current science fiction. The book is jammed packed with some of the coolest ideas, innovations, and cut dialogue scenes that I have ever read. Still, like any Swanwick novel, (except maybe "In the Drift") this is a very complex read. If you couldn't get five pages into Moby Dick, or don't even KNOW who Beowolf is, you may not like this novel at all. In fact, it could give you a migraine the size of Wisconsin just trying to figure out what the paragraph you JUST READ said! It is a pretty tough read, but that's another thing that makes this book great. Swanwick doesn't spend three pages explaining each totally foreign and new piece of technology, he just throws it out there on the page and you're forced to think, "What? How could the entire planet of Earth have it's own surrogate?!!" or better yet "Did his BRIEFCASE just beat the crap out of the people who stole it and then walk back to him??!!" GREAT STUFF!!!
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