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product_id: 313625471
title: "Anthropocene Rag Paperback – March 31, 2020"
brand: "alex irvine"
price: "KSh5684"
currency: KES
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reviews_count: 8
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# Anthropocene Rag Paperback – March 31, 2020

**Brand:** alex irvine
**Price:** KSh5684
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- **What is this?** Anthropocene Rag Paperback – March 31, 2020 by alex irvine
- **How much does it cost?** KSh5684 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Enjoyably Trippy Dystopia for Unenjoyably Trippy Dystopian Times
  

*by K***V on Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2020*

I liked this book. I used to it to wash away the bitter aftertaste of the classic dystopian speculative fiction I've been re-reading, more in preparation for what horrors the near future may bring and the comfort of familiar pastures than for entertainment. Not like the world of "Anthropocene Rag" is a happy place by any means, but there's a degree of whimsy in Irvine's dystopia that makes it curiously refreshing. He does not explain the rise of artificial intelligence or the catastrophe ("the Boom") that shape his version of North America except by invoking their aftermath. Constructs, AI avatars hardly distinguishable from human beings, wander the landscape in the form of famous historical figures. Playgrounds and major league ballparks are fused with the memories and thoughts of the people swept up in the Boom and forever lost. The role of nanotechnology likewise goes unexplained but not unevidenced ("plicks" circulate as tools and as currency despite their vulnerability to Boom effects). 'Tis a silly (but also deadly and devastated) place. His characters reckon with this world entertainingly as they accept mysterious invitations to Monument City and undertake cross-country journeys to reach it. By "entertainingly" I mean that I was mad that the story ended and would have paid money to find out what happened next.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring
  

*by K***T on Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2020*

First the six, then the seven. Intertwined stories of characters existing within a mythos that simultaneously merges our past with our future. Some may find the journey arduous, some may find it pointless, others may see reflections of themselves or find comfort in seeing nothing at all familiar.This book asks a question on its last page, or rather it asks the reader to ask the right question. At first, I felt like I had been robbed of an ending, I felt empty at a story unfulfilled, but then I remembered my Whitman. I asked the question, and in that question exists an answer more fulfilling than any ending Irvine could have written to their stories.The powerful play moves on.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Not bad
  

*by T***Y on Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2020*

I thought this might be my cup of tea - a hard take off singularity with humans gathered together by one of the AIs. And it is in spots. Irvine does a pretty good job of drawing characters, but doesn't give them equal time. Some are more like spear carriers than actual characters.And then there's Irvine's favorite characters - Life-7 and Prospector Ed, the AIs that seems to be in charge of this Odyssey. Those more pages than anything else.And then there is the ending... it literally just STOPS. An extra chapter would have gotten it 4 stars. I don't know if Irvine was trying for literary status, just had to finish the thing or his editor had ideas, but it just stops.All in all, it was entertaining but not what I was hoping it would be.Not to my taste and I can't recommend it.

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