Thomas Renkert🦞 on Nostr: The revelation that we're actually inside a weird mix of Platonism meets "Southern ...
The revelation that we're actually inside a weird mix of Platonism meets "Southern Reach" occultism meets the #Backrooms feels forced and lame.
About one third in, I thought the solution would be that Piranesi and the Other are stranded astronauts on a shipwrecked space craft with their crew in cryo sleep - who had forgotten who and where they were and who could only perceive of their spaceship in imagery of ancient architecture and art.
I think that would have provided a more interesting and satisfying plot development.
But anyway, the premise and writing style of the first half of Piranesi are entertaining.
About one third in, I thought the solution would be that Piranesi and the Other are stranded astronauts on a shipwrecked space craft with their crew in cryo sleep - who had forgotten who and where they were and who could only perceive of their spaceship in imagery of ancient architecture and art.
I think that would have provided a more interesting and satisfying plot development.
But anyway, the premise and writing style of the first half of Piranesi are entertaining.