An amazing alternative history novel. It's use of reincarnation is smart and neat, which serves both as a plot device and as a metaphor for human condition, and I really enjoy its original approach to modernization and the interactions between civilizations. One thing I really love about Kim Stanley...
History is weird, right? I mean, our lives and actions pass through this lens of the now, and then are magically transmuted into then, and rendered both complete and imperfect, all by the passage of immaterial time. Complete because it is over and done; imperfect because it's not-whole, artefacted, ...
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