Val’s Reviews > The Unraveling > Status Update

a lot of the worldbuilding being set out in brief glossary of planetary institutions is a good idea and really interesting - probably wouldn’t have appreciated it quite as much otherwise. also love the whole framing with thravé

Or so I tell myself. But we have existed so long, you and I, accumulating so many layers of memory and interpretation . . . what do I know, really, of who we once were? All I have left is myth.
And surely you’ve now drifted even farther. What might you have become, Siob, in all these centuries since we last met?
Even if I found you again, would you know me? Could we still decipher each other?

woo! windswept sheltering seems cool. and dobroc! and training vails in the long conversation! last interlude was also really interesting for the new ways youths are interacting with their technologies and art

having multiple bodies with multiple streams of action going at once really adds to the drama. cool and effective presentation

interlude after chapter 16 interesting for perspective on the constant surveillance idea + the clip-opera

Dobroc and Fift are great

The clowns’ procession in chapter 9 is great - glimpses of trans-/post-(?)humanism being pushed to the limit

Discussion of space exploration and star-ships and terraforming and diverse, multivalent, dynamic cultures (and their cycle) vs stagnant ones (falling harder and totally) with Thavé reminds me of Terra Ignota

Enjoying. Whole second interlude is weird and interesting.

6. Which would you prefer: an insurrection masquerading as an artwork, or an artwork masquerading as an insurrection?