C.J.’s Reviews > Space Oddity > Status Update

It has a Douglas-Adams-esque impishness, but starts to lose the Adams-esque pithiness. I wonder if it's partly due to the prose. But I think it's tone. Valente manages the longwinded, digressive Victorian-style for her fairy tale books because they keep a fairy tale's levity. But Space Oddity only has post-modernism's bite...and it's hard to be bitten for a sentence a full-five-line-paragraph-long.