Gamechanger by L. X. Beckett
Jan. 29th, 2020 06:24 pmGamechanger
4/5. Humanity has clawed itself back to a tenuous survival after global environmental collapse. In this "rapid response democracy" characterized by constant surveillance ("mutually assured disclosure") a gamer and proto lawyer becomes entangled in the case of a mysterious new online entity, with implications for the survival of the species.
This book really had to win me over, as it had to overcome the choice to insert "hashtag" and "@" all over the text as a piece of world building. This is, so, so annoying in hashtag audio, and I really wish that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
the_author had thought about this harder.
But it did win me over. This is queer and floridly creative and fun and weird and optimistic about us and our future. And it lets things be complicated without leaning too hard on them, like the society which exists both in authoritarian and democratic spaces simultaneously. This is a book about parenting and responsibility and making families and how hope extracted by force is still a kind of hope. I found it extremely readable and creative.
Oh also, there's a major character who is nonbinary, if that's an attraction for anyone (I believe the author is also nb).
4/5. Humanity has clawed itself back to a tenuous survival after global environmental collapse. In this "rapid response democracy" characterized by constant surveillance ("mutually assured disclosure") a gamer and proto lawyer becomes entangled in the case of a mysterious new online entity, with implications for the survival of the species.
This book really had to win me over, as it had to overcome the choice to insert "hashtag" and "@" all over the text as a piece of world building. This is, so, so annoying in hashtag audio, and I really wish that
the_author had thought about this harder.But it did win me over. This is queer and floridly creative and fun and weird and optimistic about us and our future. And it lets things be complicated without leaning too hard on them, like the society which exists both in authoritarian and democratic spaces simultaneously. This is a book about parenting and responsibility and making families and how hope extracted by force is still a kind of hope. I found it extremely readable and creative.
Oh also, there's a major character who is nonbinary, if that's an attraction for anyone (I believe the author is also nb).
