After reading The Prefect, I figured I'd follow up on Reynolds's works with Chasm City, which I also borrowed from Christoph. I read it mostly in Colombia and on the airplane from Paris. I liked it a great deal.
It's hard to describe why I liked without giving away parts of the plot, so I'll refrain from mentioning some of the main aspects. I'll simply say that I thought it was very well executed. It has several stories going on in parallel and it's very well written. I found it hard to put it down before I finished it —all 694 pages of it— as I was very eager to find out what the conclusion of the stories was. I suppose I can say that one important topic is social class differences in a futuristic society with highly evolved technology and science in a post-cataclysm setting, the ways that different social groups relate with different technologies.
I recommend it highly, I thought it was an excellent book.
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