China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh was the 171st official Sword and Laser Book Club selection.
Reading Period: September 1, 2023 to September 30, 2023
How/Why was this book chosen: Tom chose it after asking for suggestions from a list of books on Discord.
Goodreads Group Discussion of China Mountain Zhang
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh[]
With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars. The overlapping lives of cyber-kite fliers, lonely colonists, illicit neural-pressball players, and organic engineers blend into a powerful, taut story of a young man's journey of discovery. This is a macroscopic world of microscopic intensity, one of the most brilliant visions of modern SF.