![]() ![]() The plot is a solar system picaresque, a form of science fiction in which the (often roguish or underworld) protagonist goes (or more commonly, is sent) on a tour of the planets, moons, and space habitats of the solar system. ![]() The inheritors of humanity’s stellar empire are its former servants: artificially intelligent cyborgs, robots, and other machines. Which is to say, the setting is post-human, a future in which humans have gone extinct (for reasons which remain somewhat mysterious). ![]() Saturn’s Children is a post-human solar system picaresque. Still, it’s interesting to think about how and why it goes so wrong. This is a bit of a disaster of a book, an example of how an author’s reflexes and obsessions can pull in the opposite direction from the story he is ostensibly attempting to tell. Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross (Orbit, 2009). ◀ Absolute Friends ✴ ✴ Packing the “T” tetracube ▶Ī review of Charles Stross’s 2009 science fiction novel Saturn’s Children, with analyses of the problems with the narrative voice and some of the flaws in the world-building. ![]()
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