The novel stumbles only at the very end, in a denouement that feels just a little too hurried for the characters’ twisting journey. Qaanaaq is a beautiful and brutal character in its own right, rendered in poetic interludes. Miller has crafted a thriller that unflinchingly examines the ills of urban capitalism. Together, they uncover a dramatic series of secrets, connections, and political plots. S&F says: Sheep, orca, and polar bears, oh mySorry about the huge delay on this exciting episode with the Shirley Jackson Award winning Author, Sam J. Ankit, a political aide, wants to free her institutionalized birth mother her brother, Kaev, is a brain-damaged fighter at the end of his career Fill, a rich playboy, has the breaks, an illness that throws sufferers into strangers’ memories and Soq, an ambitious nonbinary street messenger, is trying to hustle their way into a better life. The arrival of a woman with two unusual companions-an orca and a polar bear-draws a disparate group together. The floating city of Qaanaaq was constructed after many mainland cities burned or sank. Miller, fresh from his YA debut ( The Art of Starving), makes the jump to adult SF with an ambitious, imaginative, and big-hearted dystopian ensemble story that’s by turns elegiac and angry.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |