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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Transcends genre:

Left for dead by her kidnappers, Lore is found by the mysterious woman Spanner, who teaches her to survive by her wits and to live in the dark world of crime. The two become lovers, but Lore wants legitimacy and to heal from her various wounds (her past with her family, her weeks with the kidnappers), so she leaves, taking a new identity, and tries to fit in. Ultimately, Lore cannot run from her demons forever, and she must either choose to stay in the shadows or to face the truths of her past. Set in the... more info

A science fiction masterpiece.:

When I started reading Slow River I wasn't quite prepared to what I would find. My thoughts, at the moment, having previously read Griffith's Ammonite, were that it would be a good book, though far from great. To my fortunate surprise, the book is one of the best sci-fi works that I've ever read. Unlike the river in the title, it flows light speed fast, and departs from most of the sci-fi that is currently being done, in an extremely positive way. Griffith worries more about the people than the technology... more info

Don't let the "subgenre" label fool you:

In SF, unlike its sister genre fantasy, there has been a history of dealing with issues of homosexuality in an unflinching, honest fashion (instead of fantasy's fey princes and twisted perverts) and while those issues have not really grasped mainstream SF, it's always been there, blatantly stated in Samuel Delany writings and others, lurking in Disch, in Ballard, from the sixties and seventies onward, incorporating sexuality matter of factly, almost explicitly so. There have been subgenres, of course, as... more info

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