A Thousand Blues by Cheon Seon-ran
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It took me a little while to get what kind of novel this was, but by the time I got there, (having not looked up anything about this book but the recommendation and the name), I found myself entranced.

It's a near-future SF that focuses on connections. The small interactions between everyone. But specifically, this is put into sharp relief when it comes to the same small connections between a horse, humans, and a robot jockey that mistakenly gets a chip that "awakens" it.

It's a book about friendship, about pain, about wounds that won't heal, and about the stoppage of time. And how sometimes, small healing can finally break the ice.

It's a very pretty novel. It's also a very humanist one, which I really like. Even if the main focus isn't entirely on humans. :) Then again, some of my all-time favorite humanist novels aren't focused on humans, either, so this really does fit.


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