The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany

**Wanderung zwischen den Zeiten**

Der junge Lo Lobey ist ein Mutant. Er und andere seiner Art sind die neuen Erben der Erde. Sie haben eine Welt übernommen und bevölkert, die von den Menschen längst verlassen ist. Doch sie verfolgen Ziele, die auch den früheren Bewohnern der Erde erstrebenswert erschienen.

Lo Lobey, einem neuen Orpheus gleich, der Eurydike sucht, verläßt sein stilles Dorf, durchquert gefährliche Dschungel und Wüsten, erlebt den Irrsinn einer Superstadt und begegnet den lebenden Toten.

I tried to push through this, but it just didn't grab me at all. Apparently its normal to feel like you don't have a clue what's going on but it was too much of that feeling for me.
I do struggle with classic sci-fi though; anyone reading this review should take that into account

This was hard to read as I did not understand the quest the hero was on.
Even after finishing the whole book, I did not get the intent of the author and what he was trying to say.

I didn't really like this. I found it hard to concentrate on it fully.

Huh...

Just... huh...

Delany's blend of post-apocalyptic, mutated future-world and a fully gambit of crazily intertwining mythology make for an engrossing read that leaves the reader going... huh.

The world is astonishing, and the mythology is often over my head but still entrancing. This is a world that has had to adapt to survive, adapt in ways that appear downright grotesque, but it has survived. Yet the stories, the songs of Orpheus, have also survived. I love that music is the source of order against chaos and the thread that binds the Old Race to the New. Music is a literal weapon in this story, or maybe more tool than weapon.

I guess it's a story about the importance of stories, and it reads like a myth from an unfamiliar culture. It is challenging, and I don't think I'm quite done soaking in all it has to imply, but in the end, I'm glad that I read it.