Review: Central Station

Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Disclaimer: Received for free from publisher via Netgalley in exchange for honest review

Data vampires, robotniks, genetic code, AI Priest, cyborgs and varieties of characters.

Good content but not much Plot. Stories are vivid but they hit the point anywhere. Most of the stories are of existential crisis of humans and cyborgs. The story is set in Tel Aviv and is focused around Central Station. Central Station is a giant airport terminal with the height of a skyscraper.

It's listed as a novel, but it's not: it's a collection of previously published united by a common setting (Central Station) and featuring a rotating cast of characters. The writer is very good. In fact, his settings are especially vivid. His stories are artfully constructed and compellingly told, with a unique far-future culture. But in the absence of any overarching plot, after a while I felt like I was in the middle of a beautiful, empty circle, going round and round and getting nowhere.

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