The luminous dead review6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Thus, it is a universe contained completely within the heads Gyre and Em. ![]() There's Gyre, the young caver who desperately lied her way into a risky, high-paying job exploring an underground system, and there's Em, her handler, the voice in her ear, her only connection to the outside world. A psychological nightmare yarn spun between just two characters. Of Gyre Price's head, inside her helmet, miles below the surface of a planet, stalked by monsters. She understands the classical strength of the single narrator, the vicious focus of third person, non-omniscient objectivity, the claustrophobic potential of never, ever (almost ever) being able to escape the confines of one person's head. Anything else is just opera.Ĭaitlin Starling gets that. To really squirm into someone's head, sci-fi says, you gotta get 'em alone against the world. It has a streak of rugged individualism that's been around since the good old days, a vestige of its roots in the westerns, Golden Age sci-fi libertarianism and after-the-bomb freak-outs. Science fiction loves its stripped-down character list like high fantasy does the crowded dramatis personae. ![]() ![]() The lonely survivor in a ruined world - Last Man Alive. The one who wakes to the flickering light and failing systems of their underground bunker. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Luminous Dead Author Caitlin Starling ![]()
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