Half Life
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780061195587 (0061195588)
Publish date: July 25th 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Book Club,
Family,
Speculative Fiction,
Glbt,
Queer,
Weird Fiction,
New Weird
This reminded me of Ian Banks' The Wasp Factory (one of my favorites). It's an in-depth portrait of a mind(s?) coming apart. The writing, at the sentence level, was quite rich (too rich at times). The ending devolved into madness along with the narrator, which became a bit tedious, as it went on for...
This is the co-winner of the Tiptree this year, so I expected a lot more from it. The book is set in a world very similar to our own, except with more nuclear explosions and a population of conjoined twins large enough to have their own lobby groups. Nora is uncomfortable sharing her body with her...
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