Recent Reading
2002-10-28 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearOver the weekend I finished Pat Murphy's The City, Not Long After (published in 1989 -- I'm not exactly keeping up with recent releases). Marvelous. It's set about 16 years after a plague has wiped out 99.9% of the world's population. San Francisco is inhabited by artists and ghosts; a young woman without a name comes to the city to warn of an ambitious general's plans for an invasion. The city defends itself with wit, style, and magic.
It's hard to summarize, and I have little practice with reviewing, but it's one of those books that's been on my list of things to read ever since I saw a review in Locus over a decade ago. I found a copy at Silicon this year, and I'm very glad I finally got around to it.
It's hard to summarize, and I have little practice with reviewing, but it's one of those books that's been on my list of things to read ever since I saw a review in Locus over a decade ago. I found a copy at Silicon this year, and I'm very glad I finally got around to it.