Monday, August 28th, 2023

2023/117: The Death I Gave Him — Em X. Liu
Horatio finally understands the horror of your body being only a body, a fleshy, visceral thing that you are made up of, this fatigued puppet, this breaking vessel... Horatio wonders: what does revenge mean, to a body? [loc. 2900]

The tag for this novel is 'a lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller', which removes much of the suspense for anyone familiar with the original tragedy. Instead of wondering who the murderer is, we wonder how, and why.

The setting is Elsinore Labs, in August 2047, Read more... )

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