Michigan Booster Seat Law 2010

Desolation Road - Ian McDonald

I decided to dedicate the last of this holiday Gorno reading of McDonald. I needed something to combat the melancholy of the end of the festivities.
bad idea. Not because Desolation Road is not a good novel (far), but because I ended up reading it all, then the melancholy end holiday was added to avert finished a good book. And the good books do not grow on trees mica. And I'm picky when it comes to bad books. Just

delirium and let's get to the point.
Desolation Road is a novel decidedly eclectic. Tell the 25 year life of a city, born by chance in the desert of Mars, near a railway line. It starts as a novel in episodes, starting with the founding of the city by Dr. Alimantado, inspired by a mysterious green little man (we are also always on Mars is not it?).
It goes to tell how the first settlers established themselves in the tiny town. And then he tells of the birth of their children. And what these kids decide to do with their lives. Everything has that flavor pioneered by the old west, where everything was on a human scale and people could still make a difference.
A science fiction story told with the tones of a fairy tale and a damn evocative style.

In the second half things changed a bit '. Come into play mega corporations that manage the colonization of Mars. The plot takes a wider scope.
Interesting in this respect, the concept of industrial feudalism , corporations are the real capital, whose inhabitants are called citizens, but shareholders . Life in these funds is the most aseptic you might think. All of this to annul individuality. The company first.
In such a situation, could not miss a good deal of social struggle. I will admit to a weakness for these things, so I liked this place. Curious
also the religious aspect of the novel. Tecnolgia religion and come together in a very unusual mix. Angels mechanical cult of mortification of the flesh in favor of the sacred metal. Original, no rain on this.
Yet despite all these interesting ideas, I find myself appreciating more the first part, the episodes, that focuses on trivial events of an insignificant town. Of course I'm strange. Or maybe your preference is due to the fact that I myself am an insignificant inhabitant of an insignificant, tiny town.

forgot. Honorable mention to the man who can kill with satire and sarcasm. Read and believe.