Title: Zendegi
Author: Greg Egan
Year: 2010
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Pages: 278
I keep going back and forth on this novel. I liked the scope, I was invested in the characters, I enjoyed the action, and then felt let down by the ending--maybe. Wherever I land on this, there was some sabotage at the end that too tidily disposed of complications. Was the ending earned? Is it sufficiently literarily sufficient that no, what one of the protagonists tried to do couldn't be done? If so, so what? If so, what's compelling about telling this story? In some ways it's like a study that fails to disprove the null hypothesis. This may be useful but it's not, ultimately, exciting to read.
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