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Imagine a city at the far north of the world, close to the Arctic Circle. This city was built with magic and money and industry and strange science. The city is peopled with Inuit and adventurers and wizards. The city is frozen in time, adrift from the rest of the world. Jean-Christophe Valtat intro...
I'm having a hard time deciding whether I liked this book or not. One one hand, the world building was absolutely fantastic, with just the right amount of detail to build it up in your head and leave the rest up to your imagination. New Venice seems like a splendid magical city of wonder and corrupt...
So there was this bit on BBC World this morning about sexism in France.Explains the fact that female characters are cyphers in this book.Intersting idea and world building. But needs more character and plot.
I read Valtat's 'Aurorarama' and didn't really like it. But when I came across this, I was curious, especially because this was written in French, then translated, and 'Aurorarama' was written in English. I did think that the language in this came across as smoother, and with more clarity, but the s...
Finished the book and I still do not know who or what the ever so important Helen was supposed to be. It is very confusing.Ahem, we'll get back to that. Aurorama, by the end, reminded me a lot of The Court of the Air in both its strengths and its weaknesses. That is, both books have extremely strong...
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