I Read Books: Fairyland
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| The cover looks better in paper |
Paul McAuley’s future Europe, with genetically engineered “Dolls”, blue skinned small human-shaped creatures doing the hard labour after the climatic overturn. Alex Sharkey, a black-market bio-engineer, is caught up in making fairies, free Dolls. He tracks them and their mysterious creator across years and miles of Europe, their innate bio-engineering creating alternate worlds in the minds of those they touch.
It’s a strange, odd, only half-explained story, magnificent in its imagination and description.
Read This: For a clever and not at all pleasant future story of creating alien creatures
Don’t Read This: For a nice easy ride
In addition: Four stories in McAuley’s collection The Invisible Country are linked to this and help to fill in some of the more loosely sketched ideas.
This is the last book I read in 2018, completing my reading list for the year.
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