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lightreadsEurope at Midnight, Europe in Winter, and Europe at Dawn
3/5. Books 2-4 in this espionage science fantasy series about a future fractured Europe whose map has been underwritten by a continent in another universe. These books lean harder on espionage novel stylings than a lot of spec fic, to good result. Unfortunately, I have a six week old baby, so I spent a bit too much time picking through this mosaic story, which weaves back and forth in time and universe, going wait….some subterfuge just happened and I missed it.
Still. These are deft, muscular books that are, as you might expect, playing with borders and borderlessness and time and concepts of nations. It's a little overbaked by the end, and that end is not, actually, an end, but still. It's interesting stuff.
Also, Hutchinson occasionally gets to be extremely cutting about Brexit without ever using the word.
3/5. Books 2-4 in this espionage science fantasy series about a future fractured Europe whose map has been underwritten by a continent in another universe. These books lean harder on espionage novel stylings than a lot of spec fic, to good result. Unfortunately, I have a six week old baby, so I spent a bit too much time picking through this mosaic story, which weaves back and forth in time and universe, going wait….some subterfuge just happened and I missed it.
Still. These are deft, muscular books that are, as you might expect, playing with borders and borderlessness and time and concepts of nations. It's a little overbaked by the end, and that end is not, actually, an end, but still. It's interesting stuff.
Also, Hutchinson occasionally gets to be extremely cutting about Brexit without ever using the word.