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Kim Westwood

Teoksen The Courier's New Bicycle tekijä

10+ teosta 78 jäsentä 9 arvostelua

Tekijän teokset

The Courier's New Bicycle (2011) 42 kappaletta
The Daughters of Moab (2008) 24 kappaletta
Terning Tha Weel 2 kappaletta
Temenos 1 kappale
1 Blue 1 kappale
Haberdashery 1 kappale

Associated Works

Year's Best Fantasy 5 (2005) — Avustaja — 120 kappaletta
Agog! Smashing Stories (2004) — Avustaja — 18 kappaletta
Agog! Ripping Reads (2006) — Avustaja — 17 kappaletta
Dreaming in the Dark (2016) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
Eidolon I (2006) — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta

Merkitty avainsanalla

Yleistieto

Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
Australia

Jäseniä

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Overall, the plot built slowly and satisfyingly, though it ended in a rush.

Dystopian, but not 100% depressing - there's an entrenched underworld that offers safety and community, and some of the environmental regs implemented by the fascist government, I was like "man, I wish." Uncomfortably prescient of COVID in some ways, though at least we didn't have mass slaughter of wild birds. The fertility/hormone issues are exactly what paranoid antivaxxers think the vax is currently doing, but with no evidence. I was surprised in a bad way by Sal saying that Albee "had a sex change at 21," but transition technology gets a more detail and less stupid later in the book.

I learned a lot of Australian slang. The main characters are mostly all white and the book doesn't go into racism at all, just homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny.
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caedocyon | 6 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 15, 2024 |
A novel set in a dystopian theocratic future Melbourne. Throw in some gender politics, a little action and post pandemic infertility you have the makings of an intriguing tale. For the most part the story moves along at a nice clip but the societal changes and some of characters nagged at my suspension of disbelief. The theocracy is not quite plausible for this close to current day Australia. The baddies are almost caricatures and the ethical hormone/drug dealers seem too good to be true - like the trope of the whore with the heart of gold.

That said, I do love a good dystopian fantasy and this is pretty good. I liked the world building in this novel even though I think the foundations are a little shaky. I found the discussion of gender refreshing and Sal's gender ambiguity well handled.
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shagger | 6 muuta kirja-arvostelua | May 1, 2013 |
What I liked the most about this book was any strong gender expression was performative.

For some reason not made explicit in the book, characters kept asking Sal to find things out for them. Frankly, Sal was not good at this. Things happened. Sal was there to notice them, or not as the plot went. The renaming of Melbourne's streets and landmarks was more distracting than anything else, one of those world-building tricks a writer distracts themselves with when they're blocked.

A fun, fast read.… (lisätietoja)
 
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veracite | 6 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Apr 7, 2013 |
What I liked the most about this book was any strong gender expression was performative.

For some reason not made explicit in the book, characters kept asking Sal to find things out for them. Frankly, Sal was not good at this. Things happened. Sal was there to notice them, or not as the plot went. The renaming of Melbourne's streets and landmarks was more distracting than anything else, one of those world-building tricks a writer distracts themselves with when they're blocked.

A fun, fast read.… (lisätietoja)
 
Merkitty asiattomaksi
veracite | 6 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Apr 6, 2013 |

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