BL: Devices and Desires (Parker, K.J.)
K.J. Parker, Devices and Desires
Orbit (2005) ISBN: 0-316-00338-7
Score: 2
Start of the Engineer trilogy, an epic fantasy without the fantasy (it is set on another world). It's a story about technology, yet the most advanced country has frozen its tech just short of an industrial revolution. The plot and character motivations need some suspension of disbelief, since the conflict mainly consists of the antagonist demonstrating that "love is the most destructive force in the universe". I really wish the female characters had a chance to be something more than just pawns and objects of obsession.
Next Book: Charles Stross, The Merchants' War
Orbit (2005) ISBN: 0-316-00338-7
Score: 2
Start of the Engineer trilogy, an epic fantasy without the fantasy (it is set on another world). It's a story about technology, yet the most advanced country has frozen its tech just short of an industrial revolution. The plot and character motivations need some suspension of disbelief, since the conflict mainly consists of the antagonist demonstrating that "love is the most destructive force in the universe". I really wish the female characters had a chance to be something more than just pawns and objects of obsession.
Next Book: Charles Stross, The Merchants' War