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The New World
by Chris Adrian
“He told them all not to be sad, because Jim wasn’t really dead: when you thought about it, he had just undertaken a truly remarkable journey.” p.17
I am still thinking about this novel. I know that many would classify it as science fiction and dismiss it as genre fiction. (Some day genre fiction will get its due, but not any time soon.) I don’t think that this quite fits the genre fiction label, but I am not sure how to write about it.
The plot lines start simply. Jim dies and Jane, his beloved wife, discovers that he has decided to have his head frozen for future reviving. The story becomes complicated because we read a chapter about what Jane is going through right now and then a chapter where Jim is in the process of being reborn. So time in this novel is a bit convoluted. So is memory. What people are remembering and what they seem to need to remember was confusing for me.
Every year, I write reviews of books that I only picked up because of the Tournament of Books. When The Morning News team picks their sixteen titles for the TOB, there are always several which I know nothing about. This year, most of the novels are new to me. This was one of those. I found the premises of this book interesting and the authors made me thing about the afterlife in a different way. So, once again I am grateful to the TOB for helping me read out of my comfort zone.
Other thought provoking books that the Tournament of Books introduced to me:
All the Birds, Singing
The Dinner
My Brilliant Friend
The People in the Trees
The Signature of All Things
I am still thinking about this novel. I know that many would classify it as science fiction and dismiss it as genre fiction. (Some day genre fiction will get its due, but not any time soon.) I don’t think that this quite fits the genre fiction label, but I am not sure how to write about it.
The plot lines start simply. Jim dies and Jane, his beloved wife, discovers that he has decided to have his head frozen for future reviving. The story becomes complicated because we read a chapter about what Jane is going through right now and then a chapter where Jim is in the process of being reborn. So time in this novel is a bit convoluted. So is memory. What people are remembering and what they seem to need to remember was confusing for me.
Every year, I write reviews of books that I only picked up because of the Tournament of Books. When The Morning News team picks their sixteen titles for the TOB, there are always several which I know nothing about. This year, most of the novels are new to me. This was one of those. I found the premises of this book interesting and the authors made me thing about the afterlife in a different way. So, once again I am grateful to the TOB for helping me read out of my comfort zone.
Other thought provoking books that the Tournament of Books introduced to me:
All the Birds, Singing
The Dinner
My Brilliant Friend
The People in the Trees
The Signature of All Things