[Report This]Date: January 15 2024 9:10 PM Title: Edo
The station being made of enamel, and all the structures on Edo being constructed of living biomaterials like an oversized, Cronenberg monstrosity is disgusting. I love it.
Your environmental descriptions are always stellar, but I think that really shone through this chapter. All the different "technologies" and the living organs they paralleled to were ingenious (seriously love the enamel corridors, cricket legs used to reproduce phonemes into actual language, lips that open into a flesh elevator in a membrane network of a city). For me, it went far beyond body-horror and circled around into body wonder.
That scene between Tenebris and Martin is the sauna was fabulous. I loved drugged out Martin trying to console Tenebris that it's okay to sell him, don't feel bad lol. Her lines were really good there, and I liked the examination of justice and morality as "junk data" left over from an earlier stage in human evolution.
The wrinkle introduced towards the end is interesting (oh, and I fucking love hind mind government ruining the world). I'm excited to see where things go from here.
Author's Response:
I'm so happy you enjoyed it! It was so exciting trying to think of interesting biotech, and seeing that it is appreciated is honestly like Christmas morning. I'm actually a bit embarrassed to admit I'd never heard of David Cronenberg before your review, but after looking him up, I'm ecstatic to check his stuff out.
I have a bunch more technologies that I want to spew out, so I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts when the next chapter (or two) roll around.
The sauna scene was also a real tough one to work out for plot reasons, but I'm glad it turned out to still be a fun one. The morality thing was a bit of a spur-of-the-moment thing, but I was really proud of it and it helped me to really hone in on how to go about the rest of the story (up until that point it'd only been a bunch of ideas and setpieces).
As for the wrinkle, while it felt a bit convenient when I was writing it, I think it'll make for a great excuse to explore more of Edo, especially the Cabinet. I'm happy you like the hive-mind stuff, it was an idea that'd been banging around my head ever since I read Echopraxia (another Peter Watts book, I dickride him often), and it was a ton of fun getting to put it into a story.
I always get so excited whenever you drop a review.
[Report This]Date: January 13 2024 4:45 AM Title: Edo
Wow! This is a seriously good story so far! I love the way you describe the biotechnology! Can't wait for the next chapter
Author's Response:
Thank you so much! I'm having a ton of fun coming up with the tech, so it's awesome that you like it!