Jonathan Lethem, The Chicago Review of Books written in calm and succinct, elegant prose.ĭear Cyborgs … blew me away with its deceptively blithe mixture of cryptic humor, philosophical ingenuity, and genuine political yearning. utterly original, from its opening pages to its final sentences.Įugene Lim’s slim, haunting new novel, Dear Cyborgs… should vault him into the first rank of American writers.Įugene Lim’s Dear Cyborgs is a novel of the future. Lim has found a way to capture both the pointed specificity of the internet and its Borgesian infiniteness. Search History, Eugene Lim’s new masterpiece. I read Search History with that exhilarating comfort I’ve felt in the best artists of their times. end of report.Įugene Lim is amazing because he’s really adventurous with form and style … It’s so hard to break apart fiction and do something really unusual with it, and to do it so gracefully … e can also just continually make it beautiful.Įvery time I see a new Eugene Lim book on the shelves, I’m grateful. Unrelated, but i didn’t know did you that the wikipedia entry for shaggy dog includes reference to the linguistic rube Goldberg mashing of this ditty called albuquerque by one weird al. This, though I’m not sure if I entirely believe or trust her explanation, is why, according to Donna, I thought the dog was the reincarnation of my deceased friend, Frank Exit. The program is turning out to work all too well, as the robots not only seem to anticipate when you want companionship or a beverage or the stereo turned on but quickly evolved to discover and emulate that which you most longed for-a desire perhaps unconscious, secret even from yourself-a desire which in most people turns out to be the recovery of the dead. The good doctor was working on a special kind of AI that anticipates your needs, and, of which, so claims Donna, the dog is a prototype. New fiction called “Shaggy Dog” up at the Booklyn Rail, an excerpt of a novel-in-progress.
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