Kalpa Review
Dec. 21st, 2009 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
So over the Solstice, I finished up Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Aglica Gorodischer and translated by Ursula K. Le Guin.
The book is a collection of short stories united by the theme that a storyteller (or storytellers) is telling stories about the various Emperors and Empresses of a vast and long-lived Empire (which is never actually named). Because the empire is so vast and long-lived, the details are constantly shifting and only occasionally does something in one story make a tangential appearance in any of the others.
The stories are all quite good. There's no one particular story that's a real stand-out, but they're all good and as a collective, they're quite sufficient to transport the reader to a storyteller's tent in the marketplace of the capital city of an ancient empire. It was a lot of fun and certainly worth checking out.
later
Tom
So over the Solstice, I finished up Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Aglica Gorodischer and translated by Ursula K. Le Guin.
The book is a collection of short stories united by the theme that a storyteller (or storytellers) is telling stories about the various Emperors and Empresses of a vast and long-lived Empire (which is never actually named). Because the empire is so vast and long-lived, the details are constantly shifting and only occasionally does something in one story make a tangential appearance in any of the others.
The stories are all quite good. There's no one particular story that's a real stand-out, but they're all good and as a collective, they're quite sufficient to transport the reader to a storyteller's tent in the marketplace of the capital city of an ancient empire. It was a lot of fun and certainly worth checking out.
later
Tom
