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A review by dashie
Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang
3.0
That took 20 years.
Hao Jingfang is a weird person from what I have seen of her, but she has written a brilliant space opera. I must say I was disappointed that instead of an action-packed sci-fi movie, I got a lot of introspection instead and it's not that I didn't like it.
It was a great exploration of what utopia means and what a loss of faith in the system can ultimately do to the system. What resounded with me most was the realisation that yes, you lose faith in the system and try to be the change, but more often that not, it won't really happen all neat and tied up in a ribbon as it sort of did at the end of Vagabonds.
I feel that at the end of the book there was ample example of both, neat endings and no answers. Overall, I was mostly cross-eyed during huge swathes of the book. Maybe I am not as smart as I think I am.
Hao Jingfang is a weird person from what I have seen of her, but she has written a brilliant space opera. I must say I was disappointed that instead of an action-packed sci-fi movie, I got a lot of introspection instead and it's not that I didn't like it.
It was a great exploration of what utopia means and what a loss of faith in the system can ultimately do to the system. What resounded with me most was the realisation that yes, you lose faith in the system and try to be the change, but more often that not, it won't really happen all neat and tied up in a ribbon as it sort of did at the end of Vagabonds.
I feel that at the end of the book there was ample example of both, neat endings and no answers. Overall, I was mostly cross-eyed during huge swathes of the book. Maybe I am not as smart as I think I am.