Review of Exploding, Like Fireworks by Pat Murphy
5 stars
Reading Pat Murphy’s outstanding science fiction is always
mind-expanding, the equivalent of traveling to other worlds from the comfort of
my armchair. In this entry, Angel is a twenty-year-old intern on Moon Talk, an
artificial colony-space station founded by a combination of poets and engineers
from the U.S.’s prestigious M.I.T., and named for a Mark Twain quote. In a
freakish accident, Angel finds herself paralyzed, and of course despair
follows; but the inhabitants of Moon Talk are nothing if not creative, in both
robotics and poetry. They refuse to accept that her physiological condition
should be the end.
I so love the process in this book: from normal routine life
(okay, in the future, because most of us don’t live on or visit space
stations), to total unending despair, to the light at the end of the tunnel-and
beyond. I think I could reread this story over and over again. Definitely I
shall not easily forget or forgo its ending.
I reviewed an e-book copy from the publisher, via Goodreads
Group Making Connections, in return for my fair and impartial review.
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