A review by mjfmjfmjf
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
4.0
A travel re-read. I prefer to write my reviews the moment I finish the book. And certainly before I read most of the way through my next book. And with the book sitting next to me. So this review is a fail. But anyway.
I remember liking this one quite a bit, but not remembering anything other that at least one of the characters in it was gay.
On re-reading I found this book to be an interesting character study of the semi-near-future. The technology changes are intriguing. But the societal changes more so. And the possibility of a United States in decay and world domination by China.
Most of the book is a thru story of one young man's journey to be educated and make his mark in a world stacked against him, given his being gay and not Chinese. It is interspersed with vignettes of characters tangentially connected to our main character.
Good writing and quite readable. And not as pessimistic and dark as it could have been.
I remember liking this one quite a bit, but not remembering anything other that at least one of the characters in it was gay.
On re-reading I found this book to be an interesting character study of the semi-near-future. The technology changes are intriguing. But the societal changes more so. And the possibility of a United States in decay and world domination by China.
Most of the book is a thru story of one young man's journey to be educated and make his mark in a world stacked against him, given his being gay and not Chinese. It is interspersed with vignettes of characters tangentially connected to our main character.
Good writing and quite readable. And not as pessimistic and dark as it could have been.