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Noor
by Nnedi Okorafor
(Writing this more as a reaction to other reviews than anything else.) I enjoyed this story! The pace was fast - thriller pace almost - which meant that all of the character development was also fast and understandably choppy. And I was absolutely okay with that.
This book reads like a collection of vignettes about a really specific (key) moment in a much larger historic and cultural context so I was okay with missing huge chunks of expository text in favor of a play-by-play of some Big Moments. In a story like this I don’t care about HOW the tech works. The WHY eats up most of the story, and explaining things like how implants work or getting into the history of manufactured organs would have destroyed the racing pace. (And that would have been a bad thing.)
I also loved the perspective of an increasingly sci-fi world from the context of a human-turned-cyborg (one of the first?) and how the main character was the literal embodiment of the tension between tech and the natural world. Specifically, the fact that the main character CHOSE all of her tech upgrades was a really topical way to approach the prevalence of tech in our lives.
There’s some really interesting philosophical and ethical stuff going on in this one, all couched in a quick, entertaining read.
This book reads like a collection of vignettes about a really specific (key) moment in a much larger historic and cultural context so I was okay with missing huge chunks of expository text in favor of a play-by-play of some Big Moments. In a story like this I don’t care about HOW the tech works. The WHY eats up most of the story, and explaining things like how implants work or getting into the history of manufactured organs would have destroyed the racing pace. (And that would have been a bad thing.)
I also loved the perspective of an increasingly sci-fi world from the context of a human-turned-cyborg (one of the first?) and how the main character was the literal embodiment of the tension between tech and the natural world. Specifically, the fact that the main character CHOSE all of her tech upgrades was a really topical way to approach the prevalence of tech in our lives.
There’s some really interesting philosophical and ethical stuff going on in this one, all couched in a quick, entertaining read.