Brief book review: Out on Blue Six by Ian McDonald.

McDonald, Ian. Out on Blue Six. New York: Bantam Books, 1989.

From my paper journal:

Weird. Parts were very good, others not so much. I thought I was following it, had a plot twist all picked out and everything ( spoilers... )

but no! Instead much more deus ex machina, only not in a quick-fix way, instead I'm supposed to have known about the machine gods all along and it felt like they didn't set that up well enough or maybe I missed the first mention of those rules? Dunno.

Finished reading it on 17 January 2005, started reading it some time in November 2004 maybe? It was a gift from ouro (thanks!)

My attempts to keep track of my reading continue unabated, oh yes. Also yesterday I started and finished Cruddy by Lynda Barry, which was AMAZING. Yay for books and reading!