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The journey of Verity across the wonderfully altered landscape of mid-America began in Queen City Jazz: "A dizzying novel that takes full advantage of the creative potential of nanotech," said The New York Times. Now it continues down the river in Mississippi Blues. Verity takes the wildest cast of characters since Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld, both living and resurrected, down the river to possible salvation in New Orleans and beyond in a great SF epic.Tags
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7.5/10
A somewhat more coherent, focused story than the first book in the Nanotech Quartet, but there still are a lot of tangents. The author doesn’t mind leaving a number of things without explanations; I realize there are 2 more books in the series, but there is more “glossing over” than I like. Still, the characters are fascinating, as is the assortment of scientific, technological, and medical developments that permeate this future earth. It ended on a more positive, hopeful note than I’d expected.
Edited to add that I learned a lot about the blues and their roots.
A somewhat more coherent, focused story than the first book in the Nanotech Quartet, but there still are a lot of tangents. The author doesn’t mind leaving a number of things without explanations; I realize there are 2 more books in the series, but there is more “glossing over” than I like. Still, the characters are fascinating, as is the assortment of scientific, technological, and medical developments that permeate this future earth. It ended on a more positive, hopeful note than I’d expected.
Edited to add that I learned a lot about the blues and their roots.
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- 1997
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