Kelson Reads reviewed Space Oddity by Catherynne M. Valente (Space Opera)
Exactly what I needed in October 2024
5 stars
Not quite as fun as the first book, but it's just as absurd and chaotic.
I started reading at the beginning of October, in the final weeks of the 2024 election, thinking: wow, this is exactly what I need right now! As things went along it got more cynical, and the story read like a bunch of totally disconnected threads, each with its own flavor of absurdist despair, and I just felt like I do not need this book right now.
And then at the end, everything came together in a moment of catharsis, and I found myself thinking yes, this is exactly what I need right now.
Life is beautiful. And life is stupid. (Unfortunately, beautiful is stuck behind a paywall, while stupid is free.) And we could all benefit from a read-through of Gorecannon's list of Unkillable Facts.
(Cross-posted from my website.)
Not quite as fun as the first book, but it's just as absurd and chaotic.
I started reading at the beginning of October, in the final weeks of the 2024 election, thinking: wow, this is exactly what I need right now! As things went along it got more cynical, and the story read like a bunch of totally disconnected threads, each with its own flavor of absurdist despair, and I just felt like I do not need this book right now.
And then at the end, everything came together in a moment of catharsis, and I found myself thinking yes, this is exactly what I need right now.
Life is beautiful. And life is stupid. (Unfortunately, beautiful is stuck behind a paywall, while stupid is free.) And we could all benefit from a read-through of Gorecannon's list of Unkillable Facts.
(Cross-posted from my website.)
