Lavie Tidhar “Central Station” (Tachyon, 2016)
Once or twice a year I read a book that seems to just reach
inside my head and scramble my brains.
The IDEAS! THE WORLD BUILDING!
Central Station
is the latest to do that number on me.
Apparently what we have is a patched up collection of short
stories that create a mosaic portrait of a place, Central Station. It’s in Tel
Aviv, long after the singularity. Here’s where people of all types, many who
don’t currently exist, gather as they go back & forth into the solar
system.
And wow.
Maybe the closest relative to this is the writing of Hannu
Rajaniemi. There’s the same sort of
density to the world building, and the same sense that you’re looking into a
future that is so different that you can only hope to understand its edges.
If SF is about expanding boundaries and making us think in
new ways, then this is absolutely at the core of the genre. I can’t recommend
it highly enough.
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