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A review by seanmft
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
5.0
Amnesia Moon is a permanent chill up my spine.
PKD pioneered the language, Lethem learned to speak it. Just as you cannot read an English novel without first understanding the English language, so you cannot read Amnesia Moon without first understanding the language of PKD. If every dystopian world ever imagined by PKD is a single word, an atomic concept unto itself, then Amnesia Moon may be the first novel written entirely in such a language.
There is no science fiction future, no apocalypse, no alien invasion, no virtual reality. The reality of Amnesia Moon is our reality. The cards are shuffled round and round until the dynamics of the deck, the bare structural violence of society is all that remains clear. If you read this book and understand it, your world will be flipped inside out; The world you entered from will exist only as fiction, and the world around you will forever after be the world within the book..
PKD pioneered the language, Lethem learned to speak it. Just as you cannot read an English novel without first understanding the English language, so you cannot read Amnesia Moon without first understanding the language of PKD. If every dystopian world ever imagined by PKD is a single word, an atomic concept unto itself, then Amnesia Moon may be the first novel written entirely in such a language.
There is no science fiction future, no apocalypse, no alien invasion, no virtual reality. The reality of Amnesia Moon is our reality. The cards are shuffled round and round until the dynamics of the deck, the bare structural violence of society is all that remains clear. If you read this book and understand it, your world will be flipped inside out; The world you entered from will exist only as fiction, and the world around you will forever after be the world within the book..