![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Books read, December 2011
Dec. 31st, 2011 11:55 pmFrederick Pohl. Alternating Currents.
Tess Williams. Map of Power. Cracking first novel! A well-worked-out post-apocalyptic setting, with no easy answers or endings, plus a first-rate heroine of colour. Cheela is one of three protagonists, each with a different level of technology, whose stories intertwine; but both she and her detailed Antarctic world stand out (and Williams avoids very many tiresome pitfalls when writing about Cheela's tribe and their spirituality). (I've had this novel in a box for a decade; wish I'd got to it sooner.)
( Books bought and borrowed )
Tess Williams. Map of Power. Cracking first novel! A well-worked-out post-apocalyptic setting, with no easy answers or endings, plus a first-rate heroine of colour. Cheela is one of three protagonists, each with a different level of technology, whose stories intertwine; but both she and her detailed Antarctic world stand out (and Williams avoids very many tiresome pitfalls when writing about Cheela's tribe and their spirituality). (I've had this novel in a box for a decade; wish I'd got to it sooner.)
( Books bought and borrowed )
