If you have a chance to post what you think ofThe Light Ages when you've read it, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I'm a little less than halfway through, but so far I love it. It's steampunk as done by someone who seems to understand intimately the ways in which a supernatural Industrial Revolution might have progressed, not just the cool smoke effects, and the hints of alternate folklore and myth that underlie the radioactive nature of aether—the mystical element on which these new Ages of Industry are founded—are fascinating. The time frame slips and mixes the expected Victorian rookeries and dollymops with twentieth-century counterculture and student revolution. And in one thread of the plot, there are certain similarities to Great Expectations, which is just awesome. Unless the novel falls apart disastrously in the second half, I will gladly read its recent sequel, The House of Storms, which I discovered at Pandemonium this weekend. (I have wanted The Summer Isles ever since I saw it reviewed at Strange Horizons.) This is my first encounter with MacLeod's work. Do you like him?
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I'm a little less than halfway through, but so far I love it. It's steampunk as done by someone who seems to understand intimately the ways in which a supernatural Industrial Revolution might have progressed, not just the cool smoke effects, and the hints of alternate folklore and myth that underlie the radioactive nature of aether—the mystical element on which these new Ages of Industry are founded—are fascinating. The time frame slips and mixes the expected Victorian rookeries and dollymops with twentieth-century counterculture and student revolution. And in one thread of the plot, there are certain similarities to Great Expectations, which is just awesome. Unless the novel falls apart disastrously in the second half, I will gladly read its recent sequel, The House of Storms, which I discovered at Pandemonium this weekend. (I have wanted The Summer Isles ever since I saw it reviewed at Strange Horizons.) This is my first encounter with MacLeod's work. Do you like him?