Anna’s Reviews > Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions > Status Update

I'm into it now! Around page 150 I became accustomed to Jameson's prose, transforming the book from exhausting to enjoyable and rewarding.

While the topic of this book is of the greatest interest to me, the writing is often dense as a neutron star. Yet Jameson comments in chapter 5 that, 'I am probably not alone in finding the latest hard SF based on informational processes (even by so estimable a writer as Greg Egan) relatively unreadable'. Authors who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Recently I've been reading unusually compulsively even by my standards; six books in the past week. Don't know what that's about, but to make best use of it I'm having another crack at my great white whale. I've been trying to read Archaeologies of the Future for thirteen years! Not letting myself start another novel until I'm more than 100 pages in.

It has been a while. A guy on Livejournal recommended me this book in 2006, I got it from the library in 2011, managed to reach page 124 in 2012, then someone else borrowed the one university library copy. I bought my own paperback in the Christmas 2016 Verso sale and am now ready to have another crack at it. I still have the glossary notes I made in 2012 to refer to. Come at me, Jameson.