Peter Tillman's Reviews > Diaspora

My 1997 booklog says: "A," excellent novel, reread sometime. Per an author's note, the book is (in part) an expansion of his award-winning novelette "Wang's Carpets" (1995). I recall liking that story. Here is a good summary: http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/...
Note: many of the author's stories are available online at his website, https://www.gregegan.net/BIBLIOGRAPHY... -- but not Wang's! Which are, btw, a real math concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_tile

Attempting a reread 11/7/21. A more forbidding first chapter would be hard to imagine!
Let's see what others here say before I press on....
Here's my reliable GR friend Kara Babcock, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
"I want to give this book five stars. I want to give this book one star. It’s amazing. It’s terrible."

So, back it goes! Always good to check out old novels, as libraries keep track, and often discard ones nobody checks out. A word to the wise... And I'm leaving up my old rating, as I read it in (obviously) a more-receptive frame of mind. It's not really fair (imo) to downrate a book because of an abandoned reread attempt. Likewise, it would be a disservice to readers to pretend it didn't happen.