A review by mw2k
The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann

3.0

One of the knottier books I've read. It's quite a struggle in many places then all of a sudden it picks up, only to mire itself in narrative lulls again. It's written in a strange mixed-up present tense/recounting style where half of the time it's a retelling by an interviewer and other times, it's from the viewpoint of the characters themselves, i.e Hera, Mack and so on. In other words, there's places where you can't figure out who is actually telling the story.

Superficially, the book is a cross between something like Lem's Solaris and an environmentalist's diary.

Intriguing, hard-going and marginally rewarding. More of a 2½ out of 5 book.