Joe Santoro's Reviews > The Inverted World

This definitely makes it on the list of 'good sci fi makes you think'... it's a REALLY weird world... the inhabitants of 'the City' have to constantly move to keep close to 'the optimum' to stay alive.. all while battling hostile natives. Natives from where, you say? And why are they human? and Why is the sun that shape?

The answers are... disappointing, but in hindsight, make alot more sense than any of the things I was guessing. There is definitely some interesting commentaries on the human condition in here, a closed society that makes some hard choices to survive. One could definitely make some parallels to the pre-World War British Empire and some of their choices. And it was pretty progressive for it to be a woman that 'solved' the mystery, and she didn't even (quite) live happy ever after with a manly hero! Still, the ending was a bit too... I guess pathetic would be the word, for me to really be pleased with the book.