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Books by Nicola Griffith
Spear
by Nicola Griffith
· published 2022 · read 2024-02-11
★★★★☆
Lots of fun – an "anti-monarchical Arthurian fantasy", Jo Walton called it. A queer Arthur reimagined by an author who knows her Arthur to the point of making puns in Old Welsh to make the story work. The author's notes alone bumped this book up to a 4/5. Not that it's bad otherwise – excellent fluid narration, strong vibes (especially re: nature!), and who doesn't want a gender-bent
Parcival
? Lovely little story, glad I read it.
Slow River
by Nicola Griffith
· published 1995 · read 2022-07-30
★★☆☆☆
Somewhere between two and three stars for me, and I'm feeling grumpy and rounding down. Very cyberpunk, but in a slow, maintenance-worker way. That's the part I like – I can't read stories like Snow Crash without thinking about the work spent maintaining (yes, even super cyber) roads, drones, etc. Good stuff and not afraid of the details. But the book isn't just that – how could we justify spending an entire book on a lowly maintenance worker? So of course Lore van Something comes from a Special Rich family (who she's run away from) and is Special Good at her job and Special Attractive to her love interest, and I just don't like that sorta thing. I'm also not super into the addict/sex-work/unhealthy relationship thing (though props for making her being lesbian being a non-issue), or into the Bigger Picture stuff insofar as it ties into the Special Family. Ending didn't satisfy me either, as I recall. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.