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Chargement... The Courier's New Bicycle (2011)par Kim Westwood
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  caedocyon | Feb 15, 2024 |   That said, I do love a good dystopian fantasy and this is pretty good. I liked the world building in this novel even though I think the foundations are a little shaky. I found the discussion of gender refreshing and Sal's gender ambiguity well handled. (  ) shagger | May 1, 2013 | For some reason not made explicit in the book, characters kept asking Sal to find things out for them. Frankly, Sal was not good at this. Things happened. Sal was there to notice them, or not as the plot went. The renaming of Melbourne's streets and landmarks was more distracting than anything else, one of those world-building tricks a writer distracts themselves with when they're blocked. A fun, fast read. ( ) veracite | Apr 7, 2013 | For some reason not made explicit in the book, characters kept asking Sal to find things out for them. Frankly, Sal was not good at this. Things happened. Sal was there to notice them, or not as the plot went. The renaming of Melbourne's streets and landmarks was more distracting than anything else, one of those world-building tricks a writer distracts themselves with when they're blocked. A fun, fast read. ( ) veracite | Apr 6, 2013 | For some reason not made explicit in the book, characters kept asking Sal to find things out for them. Frankly, Sal was not good at this. Things happened. Sal was there to notice them, or not as the plot went. The renaming of Melbourne's streets and landmarks was more distracting than anything else, one of those world-building tricks a writer distracts themselves with when they're blocked. A fun, fast read. ( ) veracite | Apr 5, 2013 |
 Pick of the week. In this excellent and not wholly despairing dystopian novel, set in the Melbourne of the near future, Kim Westwood has combined a number of possible disasters and political developments, whose beginnings are clearly visible in real life.  But the mystery is satisfying and it's exciting to read about a Melbourne made strange by time and a singular vision. Prix et récompensesDistinctions
Salisbury Forth is a courier of bootleg goods in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews. A vaccine that was dispensed Australia-wide has messed with human endocrinology and left people scrambling for fertility cures like adulterers for clothes. Now the prayer groups are everywhere, gathering under streetlights at dusk and in silent vigil outside the homes of those deemed socially transgressive -- Sal being one. But this bike courier is in love and with a well-paying job, so life is not all bad; until someone starts trading suss hormones on Sal's patch... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Dystopian, but not 100% depressing - there's an entrenched underworld that offers safety and community, and some of the environmental regs implemented by the fascist government, I was like "man, I wish." Uncomfortably prescient of COVID in some ways, though at least we didn't have mass slaughter of wild birds. The fertility/hormone issues are exactly what paranoid antivaxxers think the vax is currently doing, but with no evidence. I was surprised in a bad way by Sal saying that Albee "had a sex change at 21," but transition technology gets a more detail and less stupid later in the book.
I learned a lot of Australian slang. The main characters are mostly all white and the book doesn't go into racism at all, just homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny. (