book reissue
Yay, Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams is being reissued as an ebook on amazon, smashwords, and nook! Link includes discussion of worldbuilding, etc. by author. I wrote a review of Metropolitan here back in 2009. If you aren't familiar with the series, it's this wonderful steampunky sort of thing from the 90s, with a city that covers the entire world and generates plasm (magic energy) as a public utility. Aiah is from a minority refugee group and has left her Little [Insert Country Here] neighborhood to work in the plasm department, and gets involved with the very vivid Metropolitan Constantine, a foreign ruler, when she discovers a secret plasm source. In the sequel, City On Fire, Aiah heads off to Constantine's acquired country and gets involved in more political intrigue during a war.
It's interesting to me that now I've read a number of Walter Jon Williams novels, this one has a rather WJW-like plot of a female protagonist getting involved in economic and then political intrigue, which is the plot for his entire Dagmar Shaw series.
I'm still hoping for a third book in the series to tie up some of the results of City On Fire, so I'm very pleased Metropolitan is in print in some form once again!
It's interesting to me that now I've read a number of Walter Jon Williams novels, this one has a rather WJW-like plot of a female protagonist getting involved in economic and then political intrigue, which is the plot for his entire Dagmar Shaw series.
I'm still hoping for a third book in the series to tie up some of the results of City On Fire, so I'm very pleased Metropolitan is in print in some form once again!