If you’re into armchair traveling to exotic fictional destinations, you can’t go wrong with Seb Doubinsky’s City States novels. You can go many places, but not wrong. Most of those places will be set in an awesomely built world of competing city states of recognizable origins, shaped by nefarious machinations. Most of them will be at least tangentially interconnected. All of them will be strangely beguilingly inviting, although potentially dangerous to visit in any way other than the armchair method.
This novel takes you further into that world yet, all the way down to the Land of The Dead, which some might consider too ominous of a destination, but to, say, a mogul developer that’s just pure building potential, untapped markets and all that. Now it’s up to a professor on psychedelics to help sort out that mess. This is a shorter and somewhat lighter than most City States books, but it’s just as terrifically imagined, well crafted and deliciously droll and clever as the rest of them. It’s definitely somewhere in the realm of weird fiction of bizarro, but at the same time it’s remarkably recognizable as and smartly satirical of the world as we know it. And always, always wildly entertaining. Recommended.
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