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alfvaenWell, I just finished Jennifer Government, and I thought it was a great book. I was prepared for it not to be, with the whole Nationstates promotional apparatus, with the cover of the book on every single page, but happily it was just fine. It wasn't as heavy-handedly satirical as it might have been, with most of the characters being very solidly human, trying to survive as cogs in a machine. There was one sociopathically out of control, but he just brought the other ones into greater contrast.
The world he describes, a near-future United States that encompasses the Americas, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, is perhaps a little bit far-fetched. It's not really necessary to the story, just backdrop. Though maybe having the characters fly from New York to London to L.A. to Melbourne(Max Barry's hometown)helped him keep his timelines in sync. This would probably make a great movie, actually.
I'm pretty sure the library had his first book, Syrup, not that I'm going to look it up right away. I'm ready to cut back on library books for a few months, perhaps. And when I do start up again, I want to get back into a few series I've been reading sporadically from the library--the Lemony Snickets(I'm only up to The Wide Window), the Ian Fleming James Bond books, and rereading John D. Fitzgerald's "Great Brain" books.
But right now, I'll be reading Julie Czerneda's Hidden In Sight, which also made the Aurora Award finalists. And continuing with the Nichelle Nichols autobiography, probably.
The world he describes, a near-future United States that encompasses the Americas, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, is perhaps a little bit far-fetched. It's not really necessary to the story, just backdrop. Though maybe having the characters fly from New York to London to L.A. to Melbourne(Max Barry's hometown)helped him keep his timelines in sync. This would probably make a great movie, actually.
I'm pretty sure the library had his first book, Syrup, not that I'm going to look it up right away. I'm ready to cut back on library books for a few months, perhaps. And when I do start up again, I want to get back into a few series I've been reading sporadically from the library--the Lemony Snickets(I'm only up to The Wide Window), the Ian Fleming James Bond books, and rereading John D. Fitzgerald's "Great Brain" books.
But right now, I'll be reading Julie Czerneda's Hidden In Sight, which also made the Aurora Award finalists. And continuing with the Nichelle Nichols autobiography, probably.
