Jun 15, 2025
A thoughtfully-crafted, often thrilling, and ceaselessly adorable delve into the future of work, relationships, computers, big rockets, and day-to-day life. Each new word and every moving part display not only a brilliant reverence for the great classics of science-fiction, but also a deep love for seeing characters and the world around them come to life through the ripples of actions, grand and small.
Where many authors handwave the most fantastic parts of a world for the sake of creating something familiar, here, the unfamiliar is tackled head-on with thought and care behind everything from how public transport is arranged, to how robot companions change the nature
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of family, to how a passenger ship keeps the air temperature just right - rather than shy away from the unfamiliar, a new kind of familiarity is constructed, bringing with it imagery of a future that is believable, fresh, and beautiful.
Whether they appear for a few pages or several chapters, every character is memorable and likable; the variety of lifestyles and interests on display highlights both the inevitabilities and the mysteries of how developing technologies will change us as people. The refreshingly-human portrayal of sapient AI suggests a delightful glimpse into how work and relationships will change as machines become less a product of humanity, and more a part of it.
Altogether, the world is vividly built out in a way evocative of wonders extending beyond what we can see - as if the characters are not the center of the world, but certainly the center of something greater than what they can see - the center of something they've built.
There's a certain melancholy to transit, knowing that the delightful people you meet, and the stories unfolding around you all might never be a part of your world again - or they might turn up again on an unexpected, wonderful day. This story captures the feeling brilliantly.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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