Of course. And then we will go see the Hysterical Scientific Instruments.
Oh, it does? Maybe it's the same book then. I remember a lot of scrambling about in open country and that the crown controlled some aspect of the dystopian future tech and wound up destroyed? But I don't remember any names. There was a lot of hiding from people. Mostly what I remember is tone, which is probably not very helpful. It was a cold grey book I'm thinking of, very chilly and kept threatening to tip over into creepy but never quite did because it was too pragmatic. A tone like one of the DWJs I could only appreciate when I was older, like Hexwood or something like that, where the author expects you to know things about human nature going in, and very surprise!SF.
And I got it out of the library because I wanted a fantasy novel and I was like eight and it was very much not what I'd been looking for which is why I didn't reread it because it was one of those days when I really wanted what I'd been looking for in the first place and couldn't readily redirect. And I kept seeing the title as it went by in later years and trying to figure out whether I should overcome my initial groundless annoyance and I never quite got round to it. Should I have? Should I now?
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Oh, it does? Maybe it's the same book then. I remember a lot of scrambling about in open country and that the crown controlled some aspect of the dystopian future tech and wound up destroyed? But I don't remember any names. There was a lot of hiding from people. Mostly what I remember is tone, which is probably not very helpful. It was a cold grey book I'm thinking of, very chilly and kept threatening to tip over into creepy but never quite did because it was too pragmatic. A tone like one of the DWJs I could only appreciate when I was older, like Hexwood or something like that, where the author expects you to know things about human nature going in, and very surprise!SF.
And I got it out of the library because I wanted a fantasy novel and I was like eight and it was very much not what I'd been looking for which is why I didn't reread it because it was one of those days when I really wanted what I'd been looking for in the first place and couldn't readily redirect. And I kept seeing the title as it went by in later years and trying to figure out whether I should overcome my initial groundless annoyance and I never quite got round to it. Should I have? Should I now?