A review by aleffert
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

4.0

This is really more of a mood piece than anything, plot is thin on the ground. But it's a mood I like, of broken down machines and people on the fringe, where the storytelling is more emotional than literal, where there are offhand mentions of things like "battle yiddish" and "asteroid kibbitzum," where there's a whole sequence expanding the creepy vampire-medusa story of C. L. Moore's *Shambleau* into a moving story of love and addiction, where Cordwainer Smith is a clear influence both in literal references and the sing song repetition.