I was excited by this at first. It reminded me of China Mieville's "The City and the City" and I thought the alternate history stuff had definite potential. At first the writing seemed exciting as well. Lot's of unexpected comparisons to liven things up. I also was interested in the chess angle....
Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. That’...
Publicada en 2007 y ganadora de varios premios, entre ellos el Hugo, Nébula, Locus, Campbell y otros. Es una ucronía negra, donde la 2ª Guerra Mundial terminó muy distinto (la bomba atómica cayó sobre Berlín) y los judíos de Europa, la mayoría de ellos, acabaron en Sitka, Alaska, donde crearon su pr...
Although this is my first book by Michael Chabon, I have a couple of others to read and had heard a lot about him. Although I found this a pleasant read, I have to admit this book was not at all what I expected. I think that I expected somthing a little more cohesive, a little funnier, and full of...
Chabon's writing style is almost like a verbal assault especially with his over the top characters and caricatures ala Chandler. The funny thing is that he pulls it off. This is good detective noir. Which makes me cringe in also calling it science fiction but it is alternative history.While I found ...
I would call this urban fantasy only by the skin of it's teeth. In fact, sci-fi / mystery might be most appropriate. Alternate reality very like this, except that it takes in a Jewish settlement, a carved out area of Alaska, that is going to "revert" to Alaska in the coming year. More about identit...
Reading Michael Chabon for me is always an experience of ABSOLUTE DELIGHT...his words area beautiful, and his writing is pure genius.The premise of this book is what if...all the Jews that escaped Hitler and left Europe for the US would have been segregated to Alaska...it's now present day and it's ...
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