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A dense, meandering, weird story that I find really difficult to classify. On the surface it's about a strange disappearance and reappearance. Below that, it's about identity, unfairness of gender, possibly madness, probably a lot of other things that I couldn't classify. It's like genderswapped Philip K. Dick colliding with genderswapped Stephen King in the dark. Very much not for everyone, but I really liked it.

A tiny thing can sometimes spoil a reading experience.

Dead Space would have been a decent sci-fi thriller, but all I could think of was how the gravity on the tiny asteroid was constantly somehow depicted wrong, how things shouldn't work like that in what's basically microgravity, and I couldn't see past it. One of my pet peeves in movies, and turns out it also affects literature. Sheesh.

I liked this one in theory more than in the execution. Even though the plot was clever and the characters were interesting, most of them also suffered from a serious case of assholery and weren't really called out on that. Also, I didn't quite buy the technology in combination with the society that was depicted, even though the tech itself was interesting enough.