The Einstein Intersection

Huh...

Just... huh...

Delany's blend of post-apocalyptic, mutated future-world and a fully gambit of crazily intertwining mythology make for an engrossing read that leaves the reader going... huh.

The world is astonishing, and the mythology is often over my head but still entrancing. This is a world that has had to adapt to survive, adapt in ways that appear downright grotesque, but it has survived. Yet the stories, the songs of Orpheus, have also survived. I love that music is the source of order against chaos and the thread that binds the Old Race to the New. Music is a literal weapon in this story, or maybe more tool than weapon.

I guess it's a story about the importance of stories, and it reads like a myth from an unfamiliar culture. It is challenging, and I don't think I'm quite done soaking in all it has to imply, but in the end, I'm glad that I read it.