I think I am going to repeat myself.
Firstly, Justina Robson is one of the smartest writers around. Just because she happens to be writing about a sexy cyborg and her elf rock star boyfriend it doesn’t mean that the Quantum Gravity books are vacuous. Really, they are anything but.
Secondly the world desperately needs a Lila Black comic, or even a Lila Black anime series. Justina’s visuals are magnificent, and I’m sure that any comic artist would be inspired by them.
So yeah, Chasing the Dragon, great stuff as usual. Get the whole series.
Yes, precisely. I find it incomprehensible that so many people have jumped to that conclusion. The Lial Black novels are the best examination I’ve seen in fiction of the ways in which the female body is assumed to be the property of others and the effects this has on the woman living in that publicly-compromised body.
I just got the first in the series at Borderlands yesterday, based on your post.
It’s definitely not the sort of thing I would have picked up based on the back of the book, but I’m looking forward to it now.
Is this Novel, Novella or Novelette length? I would like to know which it would qualify for in next year’s Hugos.
It is a novel.
I have always found Justina Robson hard to absorb, even if I am a fan of her work. I certainly would like to see extended reviews of the lila black series, because I certainly haven’t looked past the Jungian mania in order to say, analyze female body possession.
Then again, that dress!