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pscamp01 's review for:
Vacuum Flowers
by Michael Swanwick
Back in the golden age of SF, it was believed that you couldn't introduce more than one innovation in a story. Swanwick breaks that rule at least 5 times on every page of this novel. This is world building at its finest. It's also a little overwhelming. Swanwick explains very little, expecting you to pick it up from the clues he drops. The novel has a steep learning curve and honestly, I almost gave up about a quarter of the way through. I'm glad I did because the novel intensely gratifying. I imagine that it would get even better with a second or a third reading, but with all the great books out there waiting to be discovered, who has time for that?