Greg Bear, Queen of Angels

This one was pretty much nasty. It looks like it's going to be about an AI exploring a new planet, and it turns out to be about child abuse and rape and murder and blood drenched colonial history and slavery and many layers of nasty. It's all exploring the nature of mind and self and personhood, but I just don't feel the need to go through bleeding sewers to do that. Plus I don't know what it was trying to do with race, though those themes are prominent, but I feel starting by killing Africa is at best a mistake. So I will not be keeping this book.

Also it did that thing where it messes with language to say that future people is different, but it messed with like grammar and punctuation, and was mostly just annoying.

I thought I had more to say about it than that. I mean, it tried some proper big thinking. But I dislike the tools it used to do it with, so, all done.

Hells

I was thinking on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the end of Angel, which I still haven't got around to rewatching because I just somehow can't commit to watching every character I care about suffer that bad and mostly die.

Specifically I was thinking about time differentials in hell.

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So that's just a whole stack of problems, inherent in the throwaway concept that time in hell travels a hundred years in a day.

I'm not being real coherent about them, but, they're kind of giant.

So that's a whole stack of bunnies.