String City is billed as a mish mash of hardboiled detective and science fiction. It is, however, a Fantastic melding of far more than that as it is filled with fantasy, horror, philosophies, and horror. Like a weird western, this book is a genre-busting behemoth. It’s sort of like a giant funhouse with something new and different around every corner. It’s lots of fun if you just go along for the ride.

It’s far more Hitchhiker’s Guide than Dashiell Hammett. A bit irreverent, quirky, different. You have magic cloaks, dimension-changing dies, titans who run casinos, mindless cyclops, giant spiders,sentient sewage, reality-jumping strings, centaurs, weather-controlling robots, Thor, Zeus, games of Chance, a girl named Zephyr, half-dead giant angels, and the End of the World. In short, everything but the bloody kitchen sink.

Don’t expect everything to fit together neatly or for things not to jump around. Don’t expect answers to all your questions. Just get ready for some entertainment.

String City by Graham Edwards, a Novel way of looking at the multiverse. Felt a tad disjointed in the writing but pulled together quickly, and read like a series of interconnected short stories.

This is another science fiction private eye story (sci fi pri eye?), which is a cross-genre that has really played out for me. Nonetheless, I jumped in need on the description of a city where multiple dimensions meet and it did meet my test of having more than one idea. In fact, there were three on the first page! But it ended up being more fantasy than science fiction and I'm not fan. If we could've just had aliens instead of Greek gods, I would've been ok. Don't let that stop you, of course. This is just a matter of preference on my part.