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Partway through The Speed of Dark
Jan. 24th, 2009 10:51 pmWow, this is good.
Lou Arrendale is charming and insightful. I've grown quite fond of him in the half day we've spent together.
Stacy is also awesome, for all that he's had two scenes so far. Crenshaw is frustrating and evil and oogy, just as he's meant to be.
I'm particularly fascinated by all the ways Lou points out that "normal" people break the rules and conventions of society. It's pretty heartbreaking to hear (I'm listening to an audiobook while I knit) how hard he works to be a better person than so many people around him.
(This is also reminding me of the way I met Nancy Kress's writing: through Maximum Light, which is also far closer to our current reality than I expect from a writer so well-known for SF. It's an excellent read and highly recommended. For writer-folk, it does impressive things with voice, using three very distinctive first-person narrators [okay, one out of the three is far more distinctive, but the other two have their uniqueness, as I recall].)
Lou Arrendale is charming and insightful. I've grown quite fond of him in the half day we've spent together.
Stacy is also awesome, for all that he's had two scenes so far. Crenshaw is frustrating and evil and oogy, just as he's meant to be.
I'm particularly fascinated by all the ways Lou points out that "normal" people break the rules and conventions of society. It's pretty heartbreaking to hear (I'm listening to an audiobook while I knit) how hard he works to be a better person than so many people around him.
(This is also reminding me of the way I met Nancy Kress's writing: through Maximum Light, which is also far closer to our current reality than I expect from a writer so well-known for SF. It's an excellent read and highly recommended. For writer-folk, it does impressive things with voice, using three very distinctive first-person narrators [okay, one out of the three is far more distinctive, but the other two have their uniqueness, as I recall].)