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Motorman
by David Ohle
Authors build worlds which usually contain much loving detail and an underpinning of logic. Ohle's world here is economically devised and offered with diffidence. A wonderfully creative, imaginative mind is on show here, but unlikely most the author's sense of self-satisfaction does reek and seep from between the lines. Take it or leave it, Ohle probably wouldn't be bothered either way.
He doesn't just create a physical world, he subverts our deep set sense of both time and space. "in the old days there was one sun, one moon, starlight enough, and one good heart". In the world on show here people have several implanted animal hearts to supplement their failing human ones, there are several moons and suns constructed and managed by the government with concomitant effect of the weather, although not one that the government seems in control of. There are notions of a mock war where citizens sign up for mock injuries to invalid themselves out of the war, thus cutting out the middleman of an enemy.
Protagonist Moldenke begins the novel confined to his room, able to communicate only by letter or telephone and is clearly a victim of everpresent surveillance (this book written long before the era of online surveillance). He is persuaded to try and escape and to meet up with his saviour Dr Burnheart and maybe reunite with his romantic love Cock Roberta and so undergoes a journey through a strange and vaguely threatening world. The ending is surprisingly touching and you appreciate that the book is about relationship and the struggle to discover your feelings.
He doesn't just create a physical world, he subverts our deep set sense of both time and space. "in the old days there was one sun, one moon, starlight enough, and one good heart". In the world on show here people have several implanted animal hearts to supplement their failing human ones, there are several moons and suns constructed and managed by the government with concomitant effect of the weather, although not one that the government seems in control of. There are notions of a mock war where citizens sign up for mock injuries to invalid themselves out of the war, thus cutting out the middleman of an enemy.
Protagonist Moldenke begins the novel confined to his room, able to communicate only by letter or telephone and is clearly a victim of everpresent surveillance (this book written long before the era of online surveillance). He is persuaded to try and escape and to meet up with his saviour Dr Burnheart and maybe reunite with his romantic love Cock Roberta and so undergoes a journey through a strange and vaguely threatening world. The ending is surprisingly touching and you appreciate that the book is about relationship and the struggle to discover your feelings.