1/ Read three books during my flights to and from the recent business trip to Cheyenne, WY. - Termination Shock by N Stephenson - Westside by W.M. Akers - Kiteworld by Keith Roberts
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4/ Westside https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41154316-westside?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=3ID2Qrn5RZ&rank=1 … was decent. Urban fantasy, of a sort. Set in an alternative 1920s Manhattan where Creepy Things happen in the western half of the island. Not great, but inventive and fresh.
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5/ I re-read Kiteworld https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1596071.Kiteworld?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=5m07Jr5Xhn&rank=1after … having first read it around 1990. It absolutely held up...all except the last 3 pages though. It's a linked series of short stories / novellas, in a mundane (as far as tech and magic) but amazingly detailed world. Agree w this ->pic.twitter.com/s8ry7DzJea
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6/ The last few pages are a bit of a deus ex machina that ties things up too neatly, and in a way that is not thematically consistent w the rest of the stories. That aside, though, it's a story about very human characters in very human situations - more Dostoevsky than Asimov.
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7/ Neal Stephenson is sufficiently good at digressions and descriptions that he can rescue a trainwreck of a novel-qua-novel and still make it something interesting. I don't know of any other author who can.https://twitter.com/ngvrnd/status/1469047238164992003 …
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