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Blackfish city book5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I found myself reading at a very slow pace and googling unfamiliar sounding words with unfortunate regularity with the overall intention being to make sure I fully understood what was going on. As the world is so detailed and the language used is highly scientific it was difficult to get into initially. An example would be that a combination of a telephone, translating system, and radio can be stored in someone's jaw. Many of the items used by the people of this world are logical but impressive advancements of equipment we use today. This is a mysterious and anonymous news service that civilians have access to. He cleverly explains the social aspects, current technology, and the world's history through the characters points of views or with chapters presented by City Without a Map. Miller has created a world that is so deep, complex, and well-imagined that it almost appears to be a living breathing entity. This settlement is bustling with strife between classes, corruption, amazingly advanced technology, and also rumours of a mysterious lady who arrived one day accompanied by a killer whale and a giant polar bear. In this futuristic and dystopian world, people now reside in an astonishingly well engineered floating city that has been constructed in the Arctic Circle. The results of the climate wars were that the majority of the Earth was either flooded or burnt to rubble leaving very little in the way of habitual environments. I received an advanced readers copy of Blackfish City in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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