I stumbled in through the Finch "advice" Amazon: in practice, the site keeps track of purchases and crosses them with those made by others, returning a series of readings that should suit my taste. Not always the thing works, but in this case the synopsis available on the site I was intrigued enough to convince me to buy. John Finch is a detective. Yet you do not call John Finch, and is not a detective.
City (fantastic) of Ambergris is narrow under the domination of a fungus commonly known as "gray caps, anthropomorphic mushroom out of the ghetto in which they were confined slowly asserted its dominance thanks to their impressive biological capacities. Able to transform the plant into weapons, surveillance systems and even entire buildings are gray caps are absorbed and re-wrote the "genetic code" of the city turning it into a hostile place for humans, who lead a life of hardship under close surveillance : rigidly assigned work, curfews, rationed food. In this scenario, the former revolutionary Finch is assigned to the local police, of course controlled by the gray caps: fungal haunted by his superior, desperate viewers of the progressive mutation of his colleague and friend Wyte (accidentally infected with fungal spores and is intended eventually to become a hideous hybrid), forced to carry a gun fungal malfunctioning puppet detective begins to lose the initial belief that they can do something to pay its kind to oppression. I want to rebel sopiscono and become increasingly alienated, leaving room for a silent resignation. This, until he happens to my hands a case that could shake the foundations of domination: a man and a gray cap are found dead in a city apartment, apparently fallen from a great height directly in the living room. Intrigued by the bizarre crime scene, Finch began the investigation with the help of his only friends rimastigli, a former librarian and his colleague Wyte, tightly controlled by his superior fungus. Soon, the plot of a huge conspiracy emerge: one part John discovers that the construction of two huge towers in the harbor fungal hides a terrible secret, the other kidney is aware that the resistance against the gray cap is more active than ever, and just waiting for the right moment to strike. From these premises, off an intricate plot that mixes styles typical of 'hard boiled to delirium bio-fiction, drawing the reader in a heavy, made of conspiracy theories and paranoia. Jeff Vandermeer The author is adept at describing the city of Ambergris delirium and the action that takes place, adopting a style "sensory" that by using very short sentences returns in a few strokes the scenarios from the perspective of the protagonist. The remarkable mix of genres: science fiction, the noir, the action of pure bio-delusion to Cronemberg, Vandermeer style moves while maintaining a "unique" clean, engaging, at times terribly oppressive. However, not everything works perfectly: the plot soon becomes too large, ignoring proper presentation of the many characters you move, have to suffer the ache empathy and pathos, replaced by a vague indifference to dramatic events may be due to a lack of characterization of the many supporting actors. The pace is not the best: after a very slow start, the events accastano in the second half of the work with a speeding, once again undermining the emotional involvement. Far from being a perfect work, Finch, however, deserves to be read for the incredible atmosphere that permeates and the author's remarkable ability to extricate themselves from a multitude of literary and film influences. After the extraordinary China Mieville, another author can prove that science fiction can be conducted away from his plate and function as a container, such as cross-genre styles in which condense as completely unrelated.
City (fantastic) of Ambergris is narrow under the domination of a fungus commonly known as "gray caps, anthropomorphic mushroom out of the ghetto in which they were confined slowly asserted its dominance thanks to their impressive biological capacities. Able to transform the plant into weapons, surveillance systems and even entire buildings are gray caps are absorbed and re-wrote the "genetic code" of the city turning it into a hostile place for humans, who lead a life of hardship under close surveillance : rigidly assigned work, curfews, rationed food. In this scenario, the former revolutionary Finch is assigned to the local police, of course controlled by the gray caps: fungal haunted by his superior, desperate viewers of the progressive mutation of his colleague and friend Wyte (accidentally infected with fungal spores and is intended eventually to become a hideous hybrid), forced to carry a gun fungal malfunctioning puppet detective begins to lose the initial belief that they can do something to pay its kind to oppression. I want to rebel sopiscono and become increasingly alienated, leaving room for a silent resignation. This, until he happens to my hands a case that could shake the foundations of domination: a man and a gray cap are found dead in a city apartment, apparently fallen from a great height directly in the living room. Intrigued by the bizarre crime scene, Finch began the investigation with the help of his only friends rimastigli, a former librarian and his colleague Wyte, tightly controlled by his superior fungus. Soon, the plot of a huge conspiracy emerge: one part John discovers that the construction of two huge towers in the harbor fungal hides a terrible secret, the other kidney is aware that the resistance against the gray cap is more active than ever, and just waiting for the right moment to strike. From these premises, off an intricate plot that mixes styles typical of 'hard boiled to delirium bio-fiction, drawing the reader in a heavy, made of conspiracy theories and paranoia. Jeff Vandermeer The author is adept at describing the city of Ambergris delirium and the action that takes place, adopting a style "sensory" that by using very short sentences returns in a few strokes the scenarios from the perspective of the protagonist. The remarkable mix of genres: science fiction, the noir, the action of pure bio-delusion to Cronemberg, Vandermeer style moves while maintaining a "unique" clean, engaging, at times terribly oppressive. However, not everything works perfectly: the plot soon becomes too large, ignoring proper presentation of the many characters you move, have to suffer the ache empathy and pathos, replaced by a vague indifference to dramatic events may be due to a lack of characterization of the many supporting actors. The pace is not the best: after a very slow start, the events accastano in the second half of the work with a speeding, once again undermining the emotional involvement. Far from being a perfect work, Finch, however, deserves to be read for the incredible atmosphere that permeates and the author's remarkable ability to extricate themselves from a multitude of literary and film influences. After the extraordinary China Mieville, another author can prove that science fiction can be conducted away from his plate and function as a container, such as cross-genre styles in which condense as completely unrelated.
