- Hardcover: 576 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books (30 Jun 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312866011
- ISBN-13: 978-0312866013
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Shelter
28 Jun 2007
Format:Paperback
I am a huge fan of Susan Palwick. My personal favorite Palwick book is The Necessary Beggar, but the others are also great.
Shelter is about a mentally ill child, an AI rights movement, a number of people bound together by complex family ties and social relations, and a homeless guy who takes care of cats. It is very gripping and you want to read it right through to the end.
Meredith wants to give shelter to her mentally ill child so he won't be brainwiped. Her child wants shelter from the monsters. Henry the homeless guy is looking for shelter to sleep in and shelter for his cats. Roberta wants the shelter of family after all of her original family die. The AIs and uploaded personalities are looking for the shelter of legal rights. Everyone is looking for physical shelter from a huge storm with flooding.
The amazon editorial review says this book is slow and recommends it for younger readers (since when do young people like slow things?). I would recommend it for sophisticated readers, whether older or younger, who can pick up on all the characters' complex emotions, and I read the book all the way through in a day and a half. It's not slow. It's just the size of a large dictionary. That means there's *more to read.*
Shelter is about a mentally ill child, an AI rights movement, a number of people bound together by complex family ties and social relations, and a homeless guy who takes care of cats. It is very gripping and you want to read it right through to the end.
Meredith wants to give shelter to her mentally ill child so he won't be brainwiped. Her child wants shelter from the monsters. Henry the homeless guy is looking for shelter to sleep in and shelter for his cats. Roberta wants the shelter of family after all of her original family die. The AIs and uploaded personalities are looking for the shelter of legal rights. Everyone is looking for physical shelter from a huge storm with flooding.
The amazon editorial review says this book is slow and recommends it for younger readers (since when do young people like slow things?). I would recommend it for sophisticated readers, whether older or younger, who can pick up on all the characters' complex emotions, and I read the book all the way through in a day and a half. It's not slow. It's just the size of a large dictionary. That means there's *more to read.*
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful!
21 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
I have had this book for a while but was saving it as a reward for finishing a major project at work. On Friday I finished the project, and Friday evening I started reading Shelter. I finished it at 2:00 Saturday morning, having paused only to eat dinner. It's a deeply engaging read that is moving without indulging in pathos and that makes thought-provoking points without being heavy handed.
Palwick creates characters who are vivid enough that I find myself wanting to meet some (and hoping never to meet others), and does a masterful job of creating sympathy for even the least sympathetic people in the book. She also does a fantastic job of creating suspense through an interesting structure that moves back and forth between the past and present, showing effects long before exploring the causes.
This book isn't as tightly constructed as her previous novel, The Necessary Beggar, but it's also much larger in scope and ambition. It exceeded both my expectations and my hopes, both of which were very high.
Palwick creates characters who are vivid enough that I find myself wanting to meet some (and hoping never to meet others), and does a masterful job of creating sympathy for even the least sympathetic people in the book. She also does a fantastic job of creating suspense through an interesting structure that moves back and forth between the past and present, showing effects long before exploring the causes.
This book isn't as tightly constructed as her previous novel, The Necessary Beggar, but it's also much larger in scope and ambition. It exceeded both my expectations and my hopes, both of which were very high.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A not altogether hopeless Dystopia
20 Aug 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
A woman who has been damaged by her family and life's events finds her way to again wanting her life to have a purpose, and along the way is able to resolve some issues and change herself from being a victim of fate to being able to accept what has caused her deep psychic damage and gain the self-acceptance that enables her to once again be the force for good that she was before tragedy scrambled her life.
The setting is wonderful and dark in the SF Bay area.
The characters she interacts with are interesting, among which is an evolving AI, and the resolution is satisfying.
The portrayal of her inner states is masterful as she gradually opens up again to the world outside.
The world of a half-century or so from now is plausible and mildly depressive in nature, but it still left me by the end with a belief that things getting better was a strong possibility.
I thought this book was great!
Dan Nelson
The setting is wonderful and dark in the SF Bay area.
The characters she interacts with are interesting, among which is an evolving AI, and the resolution is satisfying.
The portrayal of her inner states is masterful as she gradually opens up again to the world outside.
The world of a half-century or so from now is plausible and mildly depressive in nature, but it still left me by the end with a belief that things getting better was a strong possibility.
I thought this book was great!
Dan Nelson
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