Rjurik Davidson

The minotaurs are a lie! They become more or less irrelevant to the story a few chapters in. The main reason I didn't like it is because it's too Mieville-esque. It's got that same-old industrial dystopian city with corrupt leadership, steampunk and weird magic. In other words, the same New Weird tropes that have tragically become cliche. If that's what you're looking for, you might like it, but if you're looking for something new and interesting you might be disappointed.

A novella about a genetically-damaged scientist trying to regenerate the thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger), a marsupial that resembled a cross between a dog and a tiger and is believed to have been extinct since 1936. Interesting but too brief to leave much of an impression.

My first time reading Rjurik Davidson. Benjamin 2073 is wild short tale about love and loss and longing and corruption and bringing extinct things back from the dead. The prose is tight and lyrical and moves quickly. Davidson is pleasure to read and I'll be looking forward to reading more

Setting it aside at page 142, because I'm just got getting to grips with the style - which is quite bald and a step removed from the emotion of the characters - and it's making the events and characters distant and dull for me. Which is a shame, because there are a lot of interesting elements to the world, but I want to feel the characters living them, and it's just not happening.