A review by outcolder
Slow River by Nicola Griffith

5.0

Privilege, responsibility, sewage treatment, drug addiction and sexualized violence in a near future written just long enough ago that it is about our present and so dead on that it seems more like realism than SF, except they keep calling the tablets 'slates' and the bank cards are surgically implanted. I especially liked the bits about finding your place at a new job where the work is intense and long, and the sense of camaraderie when you do get your groove at work like that. Bonus points for having lots of lesbian characters but not being about lesbians... what I mean is... Oh never mind, you know what I mean. I guess the crime stuff in it felt a little 90s cyberpunk/neo-noir. I think if you're in the clone club you will dig this.