What are you reading Wednesday
Jan. 10th, 2024 01:05 pmWhat are you currently reading?
Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling.
This is a highly stylized book, and I'm not even talking about the prose yet. The book has an amazing futurist cover (which evokes V for Vendetta) and many, many similar illustrations inside. So many, in fact, that I think that was done, along with the inclusion of an introduction, a foreword, a design note and a long interview with Sterling, in order to pad what seems to be a novella. :)
The writing is also features a highly stylized cast of characters in the Republic of Carnaro, a futurist anarcho-syndicalist city-republic on the Adriatic Sea that was birthed from the remnants of WWI. It mixes a bunch of fictional characters (the main cast) but also mixes in people like Woodrow Wilson and in-communist-to-fascist-transition Mussolini, and Marinetti...
So far I'm finding the writing to be a little! too! self-conscious! of! its! comedic! intent! but I'm not too far into it.
One of the deluded characters reminds me of the new university student who has joined my [censored] political committee and who thinks he's going to puppetmaster his way to revolution... Whew!!
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nihilistic_kid's blurb reads a bit like a warning in disguise. :P
Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling.
This is a highly stylized book, and I'm not even talking about the prose yet. The book has an amazing futurist cover (which evokes V for Vendetta) and many, many similar illustrations inside. So many, in fact, that I think that was done, along with the inclusion of an introduction, a foreword, a design note and a long interview with Sterling, in order to pad what seems to be a novella. :)
The writing is also features a highly stylized cast of characters in the Republic of Carnaro, a futurist anarcho-syndicalist city-republic on the Adriatic Sea that was birthed from the remnants of WWI. It mixes a bunch of fictional characters (the main cast) but also mixes in people like Woodrow Wilson and in-communist-to-fascist-transition Mussolini, and Marinetti...
So far I'm finding the writing to be a little! too! self-conscious! of! its! comedic! intent! but I'm not too far into it.
One of the deluded characters reminds me of the new university student who has joined my [censored] political committee and who thinks he's going to puppetmaster his way to revolution... Whew!!
nihilistic_kid's blurb reads a bit like a warning in disguise. :P