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Blackfish City is a science fiction novel that wants to talk about the problems of an ultraliberal society at the same time that wants to focus on a family finally reuniting after many years kept apart. However, it fails in merging these two themes into a cohesive narrative.
The setting is the floating city of Qaanaaq, built north of Iceland in the shape of an asterisk. Early on, the city is painted with oppressive colors: one character refers to it as a “tangled labyrinth,” and it is said to have “camps, factions, and subcults.” It’s a city haunted by the past: “Qaanaaq was not a blank slate. People brought their ghosts with them. Soil and [...]