A review by anna_hepworth
Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition by Gu Shi

4.5

not a proper review, just copying my reading notes:   I initially missed the ‘introduction’ part of the title, and thus the tone seemed off; when I worked that out it started to flow better, because I was reading in the right register. For a book introduction, this is too long. For a story using that as the conceit, it is interesting — a bit like reading some of Stanislaw Lem’s meta-textual writing. Tonally, the story shifts dramatically towards the end in a way that makes complete sense, but makes the whole thing heartbreaking.