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mattygroves's review
4.0
I was unaware of Attanasio until very recently, and I think it's a shame he isn't read more. Stylistically The Dark Shore is reminiscent of Jack Vance. The prose is elevated, sometimes florid, and some of the imagery is strikingly original, as when "twilight rain fell in harps over the distant isles." The world-building is informed by Attanasio's almost mystical cosmology, which regards the primordial singularity as the blissful union with the Divine from which the Big Bang was the fall from grace.
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