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A review by batrock
Foe by Iain Reid
3.0
The greatest trick I ever pulled was making two very literal minded people at work read this because I thought it was a psychological thriller about a marriage. How you package a story definitely affects how it is received, because while there's psychology in Foe, there's no thrills.
Foe is a slow burn with a good pay off, but there are sci-fi elements that are impossible to ignore. Good if you care about stories that explore the nature of humanity and artificial intelligence (before that became such a dirty term), not so much if you just want to read something about the misery of modern relations.
Thoughtfully composed, and you've always got to respect a novel that uses its punctuation to tell the story, not just tell the story.
Foe is a slow burn with a good pay off, but there are sci-fi elements that are impossible to ignore. Good if you care about stories that explore the nature of humanity and artificial intelligence (before that became such a dirty term), not so much if you just want to read something about the misery of modern relations.
Thoughtfully composed, and you've always got to respect a novel that uses its punctuation to tell the story, not just tell the story.