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Willis is probably best know for her rather lighthearted SF books which, among other things, satirize workplace bureaucracy and everyday annoyances.
She's in a more serious mode here, and she handles the big issue--mortality--surprisingly well. A charming and in some ways daring book. The SF elements are well done--the neuroscience is plausible enough and there's lots of interesting stuff woven in about the Titanic and the people aboard. Not "high literature," but evidence that genre fiction can have some interesting things to say about serious issues.
She's in a more serious mode here, and she handles the big issue--mortality--surprisingly well. A charming and in some ways daring book. The SF elements are well done--the neuroscience is plausible enough and there's lots of interesting stuff woven in about the Titanic and the people aboard. Not "high literature," but evidence that genre fiction can have some interesting things to say about serious issues.
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