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Cargando... A Fall in Autumnpor Michael G. Williams
Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Zoes_Human | Nov 18, 2023 |   I enjoyed this every bit as much as the first time. Even better, on the reread, I was able to catch some of the true beauty of the story since I wasn't so frantically racing to find out what was going on. Though set some 10,000 years in the future, this does what the best of scifi does and says so much about who we are right now and what is the essence of humanity. That is done in part through a fully developed and complicated protagonist who is on par with even the best of Stephen King's character writing. ORIGINAL REVIEW What happens if you take a hardboiled detective story, locate it 10,000 years in the future, remove the toxic masculinity, and add wry humor with a hint of transhumanism? A Fall in Autumn is what you get. Fleeing from a past he never chose, down-and-out Detective Valerius Bakhoum finds himself on the trail of a secret larger than he anticipated. Determined to solve the mystery, or at least get his landlady off his ass, he leads us through the last of the flying cities, from the squalid and dangerous markets of the criminal lower class to the pretentious elite neighborhoods of the criminal upper class. While replete with the action and seediness of the genre, the authenticity of the characters and well-developed society keep it from being clichéd. The author also did some great things with linguistic drift, and I am a sucker for good drift. I loved every minute of it and was already longing for the next book at the halfway point. If all detective stories were like this, my shelves would be covered with them. (  ) Zoes_Human | Sep 7, 2023 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesAutumn (1) Premios
WINNER of the 2019 Manly Wade Wellman Award - presented to the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novel by a NC writer by the NC Speculative Fiction Foundation!WELCOME TO THE LAST OF THE GREAT FLYING CITIESIt's 9172, YE (Year of the Empire), and the future has forgotten its past.Soaring miles over the Earth, Autumn, the sole surviving flying city, is filled to the brim with the manifold forms of humankind: from Human Plus "floor models" to the oppressed and disfranchised underclasses doing their dirty work and every imaginable variation between. Valerius Bakhoum is a washed-up private eye and street hustler scraping by in Autumn. Late on his rent, fetishized and reviled for his imperfect genetics, stuck in the quicksand of his own heritage, Valerius is trying desperately to wrap up his too-short life when a mythical relic of humanity's fog-shrouded past walks in and hires him to do one last job. What starts out as Valerius just taking a stranger's money quickly turns into the biggest and most dangerous mystery he's ever tried to crack - and Valerius is running out of time to solve it.Now Autumn's abandoned history - and the monsters and heroes that adorn it - are emerging from the shadows to threaten the few remaining things Valerius holds dear. Can the burned-out detective navigate the labyrinth of lies and maze of blind faith around him to save the City of Autumn from its greatest myth and deadliest threat? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I enjoyed this every bit as much as the first time. Even better, on the reread, I was able to catch some of the true beauty of the story since I wasn't so frantically racing to find out what was going on. Though set some 10,000 years in the future, this does what the best of scifi does and says so much about who we are right now and what is the essence of humanity. That is done in part through a fully developed and complicated protagonist who is on par with even the best of Stephen King's character writing.
ORIGINAL REVIEW
What happens if you take a hardboiled detective story, locate it 10,000 years in the future, remove the toxic masculinity, and add wry humor with a hint of transhumanism? A Fall in Autumn is what you get.
Fleeing from a past he never chose, down-and-out Detective Valerius Bakhoum finds himself on the trail of a secret larger than he anticipated. Determined to solve the mystery, or at least get his landlady off his ass, he leads us through the last of the flying cities, from the squalid and dangerous markets of the criminal lower class to the pretentious elite neighborhoods of the criminal upper class.
While replete with the action and seediness of the genre, the authenticity of the characters and well-developed society keep it from being clichéd. The author also did some great things with linguistic drift, and I am a sucker for good drift. I loved every minute of it and was already longing for the next book at the halfway point. If all detective stories were like this, my shelves would be covered with them. (