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brownbetty's review
2.0
Eh. You know that book about a young man who gets swept up in revolution, only to discover that the revolutionaries are just as corrupt as the system which forced him to revolt? Yeah, this is that book.
Emile is a little less naive, and the setting is vaguely interesting, a sort of Francophone New Orleans in space. The most interesting part, and the part I would have been interested in a book about, is the fact that Beau Soliel baptizes their ship AIs. The implications of this could have been quite interesting, I think. (What does one do with an apostate AI? Could a decommissioned AI be sainted?)
As it is, though, I can't quite figure out what impelled Lewitt to write this book.
Emile is a little less naive, and the setting is vaguely interesting, a sort of Francophone New Orleans in space. The most interesting part, and the part I would have been interested in a book about, is the fact that Beau Soliel baptizes their ship AIs. The implications of this could have been quite interesting, I think. (What does one do with an apostate AI? Could a decommissioned AI be sainted?)
As it is, though, I can't quite figure out what impelled Lewitt to write this book.
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