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A review by maddyd51
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
4.0
{Many thanks to NetGalley for sending me an eARC of Central Station in exchange for an honest review. For more reviews, check out Plan to Happy.}
Reading Central Station by Lavie Tidhar was a singular experience. This novel tells the story of the people of Central Station, a space port near the city of Tel Aviv.
Many of the chapters were originally published as individual short stories, making Central Station read like a hybrid between a single narrative and linked short stories. As a result of this structure, though, a few story lines felt unfinished. It also reads like a sci-fi classic, which is right up my alley.
The world of Central Station is so realistically drawn by Tidhar that his descriptions of fantastical aspects of the future seem like references to completely commonplace occurrences. Of course there's a robot priest, preaching to appliances, cyborgs, and robots in the Church of Robot. Of course people live their lives with a node embedded, connecting them to everyone else in the digital world.
Central Station contained so many quotable lines that I was tempted to flood my feed on Litsy (I'm Madeline there if you want to follow me!). I'll leave you with one of my favorites in an effort to entice you to read this novel, which explores themes of love, war, memory, and technology:
"There comes a time in a man's life when he realizes stories are lies. Things to not end neatly. The enforced narratives a human impinges on the chaotic mess that is life become empty labels, like the dried husks of corn such as are thrown down in the summer months from the adaptoplant dwellings, to litter the streets below."
Reading Central Station by Lavie Tidhar was a singular experience. This novel tells the story of the people of Central Station, a space port near the city of Tel Aviv.
Many of the chapters were originally published as individual short stories, making Central Station read like a hybrid between a single narrative and linked short stories. As a result of this structure, though, a few story lines felt unfinished. It also reads like a sci-fi classic, which is right up my alley.
The world of Central Station is so realistically drawn by Tidhar that his descriptions of fantastical aspects of the future seem like references to completely commonplace occurrences. Of course there's a robot priest, preaching to appliances, cyborgs, and robots in the Church of Robot. Of course people live their lives with a node embedded, connecting them to everyone else in the digital world.
Central Station contained so many quotable lines that I was tempted to flood my feed on Litsy (I'm Madeline there if you want to follow me!). I'll leave you with one of my favorites in an effort to entice you to read this novel, which explores themes of love, war, memory, and technology:
"There comes a time in a man's life when he realizes stories are lies. Things to not end neatly. The enforced narratives a human impinges on the chaotic mess that is life become empty labels, like the dried husks of corn such as are thrown down in the summer months from the adaptoplant dwellings, to litter the streets below."