Skyatlas

I liked following the different stories and bouncing back and forth between them. I'm not totally sure what the thread that wove them all together was, but the individual stories kept me reading and the book as a whole was fun to read. Having seen the movie before reading the books, I had already formulated pictures of what all the characters looked like, which was probably helpful since there were many to keep track of.

Mehrere lose zusammenhängende Geschichten die zu verschiedenen Zeiten spielen. Ein Großteil davon eigentlich recht interessant - aber am Ende steht man planlos da und fragt sich was der Autor eigentlich sagen wollte. Und dazu dann noch ein ganzer Abschnitt in einem sehr anstrengendem Stil geschrieben - Keine Ahnung ob der Teil nur in der Übersetzung so schlimm ist.

(btw: Hab den Film davon noch nicht gesehen)

First of all, this book is a terrific technical achievement - stories within stories that refer back to themselves.

Each story is so different that I needed a few pages of each to get traction. But wow, I did get sucked in.

There are several persistent themes (slavery; the evils of corporate greed) that overall paint a bleak portrait of our world--past, present, and future. There is humor; there is mystery; there is postapocalypse...the protagonists of these stories persevere, although I can't quite say that I felt uplifted by the book's end.