A review by son_of_simon
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

4.0

This was a delightfully weird little book. It's like the moody character studies of '70s era science fiction with the themes of early '90s cyberpunk. Does anyone else remember reading Aboriginal Science Fiction magazine? The tech is what you would expect from Peter F. Hamilton and Ken MacLeod. There are several references for those of us who have read to much classic science fiction. Not in an in your face, take up half the book kind of way like Ready Player One. It won't matter if you don't know why the Louis Wu Emporium is called that.

There is no real story here. The book wanders back and forth between characters and ideas. Several times Central Station seems like it is building up to something big, but never quite gets there. Nothing is resolved, and no questions are answered, and that's ok.