SOJALS rating:

Awful (1/5)

I most recently read this on the 25th August 2003.

One hundred years from now a nuclear power station has experienced a melt-down (is it Three Mile Island - my geography is too limited to know).

A ver long time later, The Drift - the contaminated area around the ruined reactor - live the mutant descendants of the original victims.

Well, Roger Zelazny appeared to like it, so of course I did too, at least initially.

The novel is comprises several linked short stories illustrating the long-term result of the breakdown of a civilisation. It is moving, but it hovers uneasily, in my view, between SF and fantasy. I don't recommend it, but I do recommend reading other novels by Michael Swanwick, in particular "Vacuum Flowers" and "Bones Of The Earth".