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reviewed Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar: Central Station (2016, Tachyon Pub.) 3 stars

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of …

It was okay. (Click for moar)

3 stars

3.5 stars rounded down. See previous comment (should be easy to find on the bookwyrm instance itself?), only thing I'll add is that it ended somewhat abruptly.

Looking back, though, the entire work is almost more like a slice-of-life manga than a traditional scifi novel (again: emphasis is very much on mood and place, over plot or conflict) so it's not like it was all that jarring.

I'm glad I read it, but I'm also not likely to rush to seek out Tidhar's other works. (But if I ran across another one recommended in some context like a good friend gushing about it? Sure, I'd give him another shot.)