Lástima de la tercera y última parte de la novela, porque el resto me ha fascinado y me ha encantado. ( )

Lástima de la tercera y última parte de la novela, porque el resto me ha fascinado y me ha encantado. ( )

The Living Anna Starobinets

Very Good

Future dystopia

In the future there are exactly 3 Billion humans. There is no death, those that cease do so only for a “Pause” of “3 seconds of darkness”. People are born with an “in-code” that keeps track of all their various incarnations. All members of the human race are particles making up the body of “The Living”. Then one man is born without an in-code, who is this Zero and what does it mean? This is a very neat idea and the writing is also spot on. However it owes an obvious debt to Logan’s Run with people having a compulsory pause when they get old and there is even a “carousel” later in the book, admittedly not the same as the Carousel in Logan’s run but really! It also fizzles out a little toward the end as if the author didn’t really know how to end the book. Before that it is a page turner and gets gripping in the middle section especially.

Overall – Flawed but still a very good read, recommended to dystopia fans ( )