Resurrections

[bibliogramma]

The Armageddon Rag, George R. R. Martin

I loved this book when I first read it. It was the mid-80s, and it was time for a long hard look at the 60s – the music, the dreams, the energy, the dark side, the enormous potential for change, for hope, for new ideas, but also for blind obedience and destruction. It was all there, balanced on the edge of a vibrating metal guitar string, and Martin brought it back in a book that defied genre and made it all so real you could hear the music and smell the sweat and the weed and feel the vibe in your blood and the rhythm in your bones. And it made you want it all again, and wonder where it all went, and then realise that you can’t bring back the dead and still keep moving forward, but you can keep the dream alive and growing and changing as long as you set the energy free.

Then earlier this year, Jo Walton gave the book a retrospective review over at tor.com and I knew it was time to read it again.

And it was everything I’d remembered.