A finely-crafted science-fiction adventure story about writing a science-fiction adventure story, in which a recently divorced librarian take a cross-Atlantic cruise and sheds her inner good girl, with some help from her best friend "P...
"The future has imploded into the present," writes Charles Cross, quoting Gareth Branwyn's Is there a Cyberpunk Movement?. Cory Doctorow's Makers is another reminder that what looks like the future is already here.
After enjoying Scalzi's The Android's Dream, I went ahead and read this popular space adventure novel. It turned out to suit well my state of mind, which was not terribly mindful at all, given a serious head-cold and sinusitis. The setup...