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Hi,

So I just finished working my way through Celebrant by Michael Cisco. This is one of those "literary" books. The kind that's almost more poetry than prose. It's really more about images and ideas than it is about coherent plot. So it's not casually recommended unless you really like that kind of stuff.

The basic gist of the story is that there's this homeless guy called deKlend who is searching for the mystical city of Votu. A city of Natural Robots, where the city's future slumps down from high up in the mountains and pushes into the present, where gangs of pigeon girls and rabbit girls sweep through the city and the Bird of Ill Omen watches over it all.

There are lots of great bits, lots of tantalizing details that could easily spin out into their own stories, but it all rambles back and forth as deKlend rockets around through time and space and the various other characters intersect with him. But again, it has more of a generalized idea of a plot.

It was an interesting read, but a bit of a slog to get through.

later
Tom
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