Description

A Mars of the creativity, like no other, in a colourful, amusing SF book; Happening within the kaleidoscopic potential of Ian McDonald's Desolation Street, Ares Show is placed on the terraformed Mars where combination-driven engines operate across the circle of rails that's the earth's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure actuality vast amounts of times each minute. One young lady, Sweetness Octave Wonderful-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the individual upon whom the near future - or commodities - of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, humorous; getting the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the newer, terraformed Marses of writers such as for instance Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, Ares Show is just a wild and woolly wonder-realist SF book, offering plenty of weird concepts, unusual, brain-stretching tips and trains as big as city blocks.