Review: Only Forward
Only Forward is funny but also dark, and the protagonist breaks the fourth wall – so I was hooked from the get go. (I’m a sucker for Deadpool if you read comics, and this book was reminiscent of that fellow.)
The first half is a fun slicing and dicing of society, a cool vision of disparate city-states with varying approaches to resiliency. For example: Stability isolates itself from everything, including the weather, to… remain stable. Another collapsed into perpetual violent gang warfare- think Somalia. Fun stuff, with AI embedded in everything.
The second half jumps beyond that world, and even the scifi genre, into a fantasy land thing. I made it through but it wasn’t thought provoking or particularly poignant, so I don’t have much to say about it. Your mileage on that half will vary.
-Shlok
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