Engine City

[redbird]

Just a subjective "wow, cool" for worldbuilding and characters. And yes, agrumer, you're right that that's a better joke than any in Dark Light and that it would be a serious spoiler.

MacLeod does cool things with relativity and the ways information spreads at light-speed, not just as internal-to-the-characters'-lives, but with narrative structure. And I think there's room for a sequel, both in the "what comes next?" sense and in lots of things we don't learn--I'd like to get back to Mingulay, for example, and I'd like to learn more about the other "Adamic races". I have no idea of whether he's planning one.

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[papersky.livejournal.com]

He couldn't write a sequel, he very carefully spent practically the whole of Engine City dancing carefully around the edge of a Singularity, with the multis. I think that was a perfect ending, and definitely an ending.

I'm looking forward to his new thing.