Making Light:  Thoroughly spoiled Little Brother ::: May 07, 2008, 05:16 PM

I knew I had to read this when Patrick announced the review copies,
and I'm glad Cory put up CC versions so I don't have to wait for the
bookstore.  I thought the book was very good, but maybe not as much of
a paradigm shift as Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.  I guess you
that's the price of present-day relevance.

I can't say DHS got off too hard.  They had the politico and haircut
woman who were pretty flat evil, but they also had Masha, who at least
couldn't rationalize it forever.  And you have to expect there were
a bunch more who tried to come in from the cold and got caught.  I'm
more concerned that DHS was shown as too incompetent--I don't think a
real-life Marcus could stay free.  Realism would come out more like
1984, only with less wiggle room.

The only real groaner typo I saw was "proscribed" for "prescribed",
though I might quibble about some of the hyphenated terms.