We slide easily between motion picture scripting and stream of consciousness, with a few actual epistles thrown in. Each and every name is square on the mark. There's a boatload of Sumerian in here, as well. Word of warning: don't bother reading this unless you KNOW your mythology, and I'm not just talking about the greeks. This is what all SF aspires to be when it grows up and speaks like David Foster Wallace channeling Roger Zelazny.ĭo I like this? Oh my lord. Active readers will have a huge, huge kick. the ending is both nearly incomprehensible and immensely satisfying. Re-reads are not only welcome - but delightful.Īnd damn. Told using techniques from reality TV, classic film, gossip magazines, and meta-fictional narrative, Radiance is a solar system-spanning story of love, exploration, family, loss, quantum physics, and silent film.Īfter re-reading my gushing review from years ago and having just re-read the fantastic book, I wonder if there's anything I can add to it?Īh, how about this: Getting a nice hardbound version and sipping the tale like a great wine is recommended. Though her crew limps home to earth and her story is preserved by the colony's last survivor, Severin will never return. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe.īut her latest film, which investigates the disappearance of a diving colony on a watery Venus populated by island-sized alien creatures, will be her last. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction in which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on beautiful rockets. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1946 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Valente, the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M.
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