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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
Connected stories of a cyberpunk world. Lots of interesting ideas here, my favorite was the family infected with memory like a virus. I would have loved a book exploring just that idea.
There are almost too many ideas to pull the whole thing together, but it was fun to play in this world for a while.
There are almost too many ideas to pull the whole thing together, but it was fun to play in this world for a while.
A collection of short stories which form a continual and (reasonably) coherent narrative, albeit one narrated by many different characters. Perhaps closest to cyberpunk stylings, with ubiquitous data flow, AIs, augmented humans and much that is indistinguishable from magic.
I would have liked a deeper exploration of many of the sub-stories and hope the author returns to this universe in the future.
I would have liked a deeper exploration of many of the sub-stories and hope the author returns to this universe in the future.
I don't read a lot of sci-fi so this was a new experience for me. The future Tidhar imagines bursts out of the pages in atmospheric splendor -- so many fascinating ideas of a digitally incorporated future that seem rather on point. The actual characters and their stories didn't do much for me, though.
I really enjoyed this book: set in a future Tel Aviv, it's less a grand narrative, and more a snapshot of a group of characters, all interconnected. It's also a really satisfying sci-fi novel in the way it drops in brief but tantalising references to technologies, cities, etc that are never mentioned again - but which truly flesh out the world (well, galaxies) around Central Station. I want to read many more stories in this universe.
I finished this earlier today and not really sure what to think about this. It has some interesting stories within the novel but not really sure what the point of the overall book was.
3 Stars for a novel I am not sure what I fell about it.
3 Stars for a novel I am not sure what I fell about it.
Astonishing in its imagination and exquisitely executed. This is a series of vignettes rather than a plot driven piece (many of the chapters have appeared as short stories elsewhere), so don't go in expecting the wrong thing. But the quality of the writing is dazzling, and that's why we're here.
Gorgeously written hard sf about a bunch of loosely connected characters dealing with issues in and out of the virtual, all connected to AI of various flavors. Nice mysticism too. Not 5 because it still felt a bit ragged at the end.
Central Station is the latest novel by very-many-award-winning Israeli author Lavie Tidhar, and tells the story of...well...I'm not really sure what it tells the story of and I just read it. This book was a very strange experience for me. It felt as though the story was just meandering around with nothing I could point to as being a plot for most of the length, and yet it was very compelling. Then when the story events picked up, it was a mad rush to...again...sort of something? As strange as the plot and flow of the novel was, it was nevertheless very enjoyable. Definitely an experience.
Read the whole review at Strange Currencies
http://strangecurrencies.org/2016/02/09/review-of-central-station-by-lavie-tidhar/
Read the whole review at Strange Currencies
http://strangecurrencies.org/2016/02/09/review-of-central-station-by-lavie-tidhar/
This world is incredibly rich in details, but they tend to drown out and overwhelm everything else.