![]() ![]() Awakening yet again in a novel place with new hurts, the urge to fix the problem is intense. ![]() In the opening scene, Sparrow cannot recall what took place in the preceding 36 hours. It is equally relevant that this main character is a bioengineered human, though that case is not plainly stated until half-way through the story. Sparrow, the point-of-view character, makes a living by bartering such skill, along with occasional sales of scavenged artifacts. ![]() So are pre-collapse artifacts themselves. Since the time is a post-nuclear-clash future following a war between the Americas, North and South, skill at maintaining and repairing salvaged artifacts is valuable. ![]() Nonetheless it is subtitled "A Fantasy for Technophiles" and the central place of devices generally, and electronics specifically, justifies that label. This makes it an urban fantasy, one specifically hinged on Tarot (each of ten sections is named for a card) and Louisiana Voodoo. Although the city in which Bone Dance is set is not named, it appears to be a climate-modified Minneapolis, the author's setting for her first novel, War for the Oaks. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |