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A review by erinflight
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
4.0
This is a strange, dreamlike story about a sci-fi future populated by decaying robots, machine-human minds, information vampires, and mechanical gods humans created for themselves.
The chapters skip around, both in time and space, with different narrators. I had trouble keeping track of the names, so I think I missed some of the connections between the different narratives. But, either way, they mostly don't tie together directly, and a lot of the threads don't really ever form complete stories.
This isn't a plot driven book. It's more of a collection of moments and individual people's stories, in a bittersweet version of the future.
I liked it, I'm not sure I followed it particularly well.
None of the individual ideas within the book struck me as particularly original (which is true of the majority of sci-fi), but the combination felt genuinely fresh for some reason I can't quite put my finger on.
The chapters skip around, both in time and space, with different narrators. I had trouble keeping track of the names, so I think I missed some of the connections between the different narratives. But, either way, they mostly don't tie together directly, and a lot of the threads don't really ever form complete stories.
This isn't a plot driven book. It's more of a collection of moments and individual people's stories, in a bittersweet version of the future.
I liked it, I'm not sure I followed it particularly well.
None of the individual ideas within the book struck me as particularly original (which is true of the majority of sci-fi), but the combination felt genuinely fresh for some reason I can't quite put my finger on.