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wyrmdog 's review for:
Blackfish City
by Sam J. Miller
I struggled to get through this book. I found it difficult to engage with for entertainment. From the awkwardness of parsing Soq's chapters* to the fact that no matter what it tries to present itself as, Blackfish City is a weirdly maudlin (and a little self-loathing) superhero story set in a dreamlike, fantastic now.
Like good sci-fi it tries to show an absurd and distorted picture of what, who, and where we are. Like bad sci-fi, it can't deliver its message effectively because it refuses to explore what it's set up; Blackfish City can't quite get up to dreaming big. There are neat ideas buried in this book, none of them getting to the surface without talking heads to show the way for those of us too stupid to figure it out.
I wanted to like it a lot, it had so much potential, but it never got out of its own way. Sam Miller is a talented hand with prose, though, and his skill at it is ultimately what kept me to the end.
Like good sci-fi it tries to show an absurd and distorted picture of what, who, and where we are. Like bad sci-fi, it can't deliver its message effectively because it refuses to explore what it's set up; Blackfish City can't quite get up to dreaming big. There are neat ideas buried in this book, none of them getting to the surface without talking heads to show the way for those of us too stupid to figure it out.
I wanted to like it a lot, it had so much potential, but it never got out of its own way. Sam Miller is a talented hand with prose, though, and his skill at it is ultimately what kept me to the end.