by John Crowley
Review edited after June 2013 re-read4-4.5 stars This is a great, weird, crazy little sf-fantasy that I love for reasons I can't really put my finger on. Crowley's ability to simply write is obviously one of the elements that works in the book's favour, though my review of [b:Little Big|2612|The Tip...
Crowley's first novel is an extremely stylized slight science fantasy about a chess board world in which outside forces occasionally experiment by introducing new elements like religion and guns.