I really like Tribes. Even better than MU. Heh, you might say ‘It appeals to my interests’. I love urban fantasy, and dystopian futures as well. This kind of dark slightly grimy sense of life is like some sort of literary lure. Admittedly, we are only seeing one side of Jericho, there has to be another level of social strata, where people regularly drive Audis and make money.

We just don’t see much of it here. In many ways, Nick Brown reminds me of woshisname from Neverwhere, only tangentally connected to this entire other world living in the underbelly of things, but becoming more conneted as he experiences more. With him having been tribe, and leaving that part behind him, there are also more than a few shades of Hook in as well, especially with them both being lawyers.

Interestingly enough, despite this being a fantasy, it is not fantastic. More, I think, it is surreal, with the common juxtaposed with the fantastic. Fishbowl scrying. It’s that sense that I love too, combined with the point of view—everything is alienated, estranged, outside the common reference, both of each other, and us as the reader, but the style of narrative. With MU, it is deeply personal, each story is told, oberserved, we see most of the life through the viewpoint of Miss Blaise. Here, there is such a lack of intimacy, they don’t even have personhood until they introduce themselves, taking that first action.

I loves it. Thank you.

And… …NovaSeer… …because trying to get a story out that’s twice as long, with Alexandra’s other workload would be beastly.

Just about sums up my thoughts there. I’m very interested to see how that theme plays out.

I love it! And it makes perfect sense.

By the way, whenever I remember about the exactly 333 words in each chapter, I am impressed that you can do this without sounding contrived.