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[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That reminds me of The Inverted World by Christopher Priest. Cool idea about a city on tracks that must always move otherwise suffer spacetime distortions. Thats the only interesting part about the whole thing.

[โ€“] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah, that's pretty similar, the main difference being the setting. For me, I can only really tolerate books if they're science fiction for some reason.

But yeah, that book was so bad it honestly makes me want to take a crack at the idea myself and see if I can do it better.

I know I probably can't, I have very little writing experience. But it's gotta be at least worth the attempt.