The novel's gestalt is realized with depth and subtlety. The science is right, the understanding of interlocking systems is viscerally correct. This is a world, complete with cracks in the sidewalk, stray cats, human folly and wisdom, and the selective blindnesses that complicate existence.
Slow River is graceful and seductive.
Lore's story embodies all things human, including science and the moral imperative which fall out if its proper practice. It is the best kind of science fiction, and, finally, the best kind of literature. In the end it is reaffirming of our humanness. Her second book is an equally brilliant but very different story of the near future and one woman's search for an identity. There are no disposable characters either.