Title: an acid trip without the pleasure of acid
Product review: Swanwick was going (i think) for a deeply intellectual trip through a strange and exciting world of magic and technology. he missed. there are rules people follow in books and they follow them because they make the books interesting. and unless one is a very good author, breaking the rules makes for a boring book. and the end was ridiculous. it was like the end of Congo. "well, i wrote 400 pages, guess i better call it quits. hmm, lets see. wait i got it. she'll wake up and it will all have been a dream." if it had a decent ending it might have been ok. but i guess he thought he was being clever.
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