"Heartbreakingly beautiful.prose as rich and textured as the characters and society it describes. [Cameron Reed] combines William Gibson''s dazzling talent for technological extrapolation with Theodore Sturgeon''s unerring knowledge of the human heart." --Susan Palwick "The voice of The Fortunate Fall is by turns ironic and vulnerable, clear and strong." --Maureen McHugh, author of China Mountain Zhang "Vibrant, sweet, and tragic, The Fortunate Fall is a tailored virus that rewrote some of my code.Attempts impossible things and succeeds brilliantly."--Jonathan Lethem, author of Gun, with Occasional Music "The best novel about wired culture since the SF debut of Neal Stephenson."--Lisa Goldstein "Confrontations reminiscent to me of nothing so much as the ''Grand Inquisitor'' sections of The Brothers Karamazov .
it isn''t often that we find a book which tackles dead-on the central conflicts between personal and political life, not to mention the question of the nature of the soul. Complex, strong and ambitious."--Suzy McKee Charnas, author of The Furies "If there''s a better first novel published this year, I''ll eat my hard drive."--Emma Bull "As good as books get." --Jo Walton "A stunningly imagined and developed backdrop . an assured, noteworthy, auspicious debut." -- Kirkus "This highly literate, grim and gripping example of latter-day cyberpunk counts as one of the most promising SF debuts in recent years." -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review "''Warm and human even as it''s post human,'' as Jo Walton observes in her introduction, Reed''s remarkable debut skillfully blends mind-bending speculation with riveting intrigue, alluring romance and harrowing drama, set in a prescient de-souled future.
"--Library Journal, Starred Review "One of the most brilliant sf debuts in years" -- Booklist > "If there''s a better first novel published this year, I''ll eat my hard drive."--Emma Bull "As good as books get." --Jo Walton "A stunningly imagined and developed backdrop . an assured, noteworthy, auspicious debut." -- Kirkus "This highly literate, grim and gripping example of latter-day cyberpunk counts as one of the most promising SF debuts in recent years." -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review "''Warm and human even as it''s post human,'' as Jo Walton observes in her introduction, Reed''s remarkable debut skillfully blends mind-bending speculation with riveting intrigue, alluring romance and harrowing drama, set in a prescient de-souled future."--Library Journal, Starred Review "One of the most brilliant sf debuts in years" -- Booklist > "If there''s a better first novel published this year, I''ll eat my hard drive."--Emma Bull "As good as books get.
" --Jo Walton "A stunningly imagined and developed backdrop . an assured, noteworthy, auspicious debut." -- Kirkus "This highly literate, grim and gripping example of latter-day cyberpunk counts as one of the most promising SF debuts in recent years." -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review "''Warm and human even as it''s post human,'' as Jo Walton observes in her introduction, Reed''s remarkable debut skillfully blends mind-bending speculation with riveting intrigue, alluring romance and harrowing drama, set in a prescient de-souled future."--Library Journal, Starred Review "One of the most brilliant sf debuts in years" -- Booklist > "If there''s a better first novel published this year, I''ll eat my hard drive."--Emma Bull "As good as books get." --Jo Walton "A stunningly imagined and developed backdrop . an assured, noteworthy, auspicious debut.
" -- Kirkus "This highly literate, grim and gripping example of latter-day cyberpunk counts as one of the most promising SF debuts in recent years." -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review "''Warm and human even as it''s post human,'' as Jo Walton observes in her introduction, Reed''s remarkable debut skillfully blends mind-bending speculation with riveting intrigue, alluring romance and harrowing drama, set in a prescient de-souled future."--Library Journal, Starred Review "One of the most brilliant sf debuts in years" -- Booklist . an assured, noteworthy, auspicious debut." -- Kirkus "This highly literate, grim and gripping example of latter-day cyberpunk counts as one of the most promising SF debuts in recent years." -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review "''Warm and human even as it''s post human,'' as Jo Walton observes in her introduction, Reed''s remarkable debut skillfully blends mind-bending speculation with riveting intrigue, alluring romance and harrowing drama, set in a prescient de-souled future."--Library Journal, Starred Review "One of the most brilliant sf debuts in years" -- Booklist.