Instructions on How to Disappear
By Gabriela Lee
2016
First Published
3.61
Average Rating
226
Number of Pages
In Gabriela Lee's first book, she has meticulously and intelligently reworked numerous genre tropes. Set in future Manila, a gleaming metropolis where one's paranoia may not be exactly unfounded and whose lashing sings tribute to Philip K. Dick. "Stations" takes on the ethical trappings of high technology adoption. "August Moon" relies on a succession of flashbacks to uncover, as well as obscure, the eventual doom of a woman who deems herself a "good wife," while "Eyes as Wide as the Sky" depicts a post-war world—scorched yet not wholly devoid of hope. These stories insist on the unreal becoming the real, the rational melding with the irrational, familiarity breeding strangeness.
Avg Rating
3.61
Number of Ratings
156
5 STARS
22%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
26%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
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Author
Gabriela Lee
Author · 3 books
Wannabe writer, amateur fangirl, bibliophile, geek. Currently a wandering academic.
