A floating Arctic city, overseen by AIs but really overrun with corruption and crime, feels its balance of power shift when a woman riding a killer whale and trailing a polar bear arrives at its docks in Sam J. Miller's Blackfish City.
Ensuing events unfold through the eyes of multiple narrators, including a low-level bureaucrat who used to be a street punk, a rich but slumming young man, a journeyman fighter with gaps in his memories, and a gender-fluid teen who works as a delivery person.
Miller has done a great job with world-building, and has a contemporary view of sexuality and politics. The novel also features interesting characters and situations throughout. It is a rare dystopian novel with a glimmer of hope at the end.
Recommended for science fiction fans.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
Ensuing events unfold through the eyes of multiple narrators, including a low-level bureaucrat who used to be a street punk, a rich but slumming young man, a journeyman fighter with gaps in his memories, and a gender-fluid teen who works as a delivery person.
Miller has done a great job with world-building, and has a contemporary view of sexuality and politics. The novel also features interesting characters and situations throughout. It is a rare dystopian novel with a glimmer of hope at the end.
Recommended for science fiction fans.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
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