So glad to hear you liked it, Antonin! I just finished it and found it VERY interesting and exciting on certain levels (though baffling and frustrating too - which is only to be expected, surely!). I feel like most of the reviews and comments I've run into so far seem more dubious and negative than not. I was utterly surprised to find that it more or less ACTUALLY lived up to all the blurbs trying to succinctly describe it on the book cover. <div>
<br></div><div>I actually think it may end up being a helpful key or guide in certain ways to reading the Solar Cycle - I feel like Wolfe more overtly showcased some of his unique forms and methods of narrative in this book, and some of his Solar Cycle themes also.<br>
<br>Your theory about Margaret kind of blows my mind, but I'll have to see how people are arriving at that hypothesis. It would at least partly make sense of why I found Margaret such an interesting minor character. (I felt there was some fairly self-conscious reference to her being - or at least being like - a little 'gray' elf or sprite or fairy or some such creature.) Is there any direct reference to time travel in the novel?<div>
<br></div><div>-DOJP<br><br></div></div>