Book Review

Sagramanda (2006)

EW's GRADE
B

Details Writer: Alan Dean Foster; Genre: Fiction; Publisher: Pyr

The subtitle of Alan Dean Foster's Sagramanda promises ''a novel of near-future India,'' and so it is. An information thief tries to buy his way out of the megalopolis Sagramanda, teeming with 100 million people who take mag-lev shuttle trains and rickshaws.

For Fans of...
Johnny Mnemonic (the Gibson, not the Keanu), Blade Runner, and Monsoon Wedding.

Lowdown
Foster's world is convincingly thought-out, but there are too many plot threads (even a man-eating tiger).

Originally posted Oct 20, 2006 Published in issue #904 Oct 27, 2006 Order article reprints
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