I loved The Intuitionist. To me as an SF fan, the book has a very SFnal feel. A magic realist novel about an elevator inspector! Rapture! (I wouldn’t have described it as “about progress”, but that just shows that Whitehead is working on many levels at once.)
One correction: the main character is the city’s first black female elevator inspector; the other black inspector, who is male, is her foil (in more than one sense of the word).
In general, the novel reads a lot less as "SFnal" and a lot more as "Modernist" to me, which I think is an interesting place for a novel written in 1999 to be positioning itself.
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One correction: the main character is the city’s first black female elevator inspector; the other black inspector, who is male, is her foil (in more than one sense of the word).
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In general, the novel reads a lot less as "SFnal" and a lot more as "Modernist" to me, which I think is an interesting place for a novel written in 1999 to be positioning itself.
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