A review by elste
Afterlife by Marcus Sakey
4.0
Wow! It has been quite some time since I have read something pioneering and primitive. A story that takes the imagination for a wild ride, compelling the psyche to bend and flex with each new tripping concept.
“We don’t really understand life at all. What it means, what it is, even how it began. Physics tells us things fall apart, but life is the opposite of that. Life grows, spreads, changes. It’s like the reverse of entropy.”
Afterlife delivers on so many levels – a twisted promulgation and a deeply guttural conceptualization of the life, death, life cycle.
“Again. Again. Again. The worlds blurred around him. The sky lowered and loomed. Buildings shook and shattered. Reality flowed like candle wax.”
“We don’t really understand life at all. What it means, what it is, even how it began. Physics tells us things fall apart, but life is the opposite of that. Life grows, spreads, changes. It’s like the reverse of entropy.”
Afterlife delivers on so many levels – a twisted promulgation and a deeply guttural conceptualization of the life, death, life cycle.
“Again. Again. Again. The worlds blurred around him. The sky lowered and loomed. Buildings shook and shattered. Reality flowed like candle wax.”