Brasyl
by:
Ian McDonald (author)
ISBN:
9780575080515 (0575080515)
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Speculative Fiction,
Alternate History,
Cyberpunk,
Brazil,
Near Future
My younger son gave me this book to read. It irritated me with lazy grammatical faults and sloppy writing - repeated words in sentences and short-hand sentence construction that often had me reading a sentence several times to make sense of it. Written in alternating sections dates 2006, 2032 and 17...
I would have given this 4 stars except for the abrupt ending.
This was my first book by Ian McDonald. I had heard a lot of good things and I picked it up the year it came out. For the most part, the author is worthy of the praise. The setting of Brasil is fairly unique in the English-speaking world and the book follows not one but three stories in three sep...
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