The Dimensions of a Cave
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A virtuoso journey into networks of power, our embroilment with new technologies, and the dangers of corruption, by an electrifying debut novelist. When the investigative reporter Quentin Jones’s story about covert military interrogation practices in the Desert War is buried, he is spurred to dig deeper, and he unravels a trail that leads to VIRTUE: cutting-edge technology that simulates reality during interrogation. As the shadowy labyrinths of governmental corruption unfurl and tighten around him, unnerving links to his protégé Bruce—who, like Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz, disappeared into the war several years earlier—keep emerging. Greg Jackson's The Dimensions of a Cave is a virtuoso journey into networks of power, our embroilment with new technologies, and the dangers of corruption. It explores our drive toward war, violence, and venality, placing humanity and idealism under the spotlight.
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Really mixed feelings on this one. He's an incredible writer but it feels like he got too caught up on plot. Literary, poetical Neal Stephenson. It feels like it's all exposition, various scenes of conversations. Maybe all books are but it felt especially noticeable. And the plot feels basic to me, but maybe because it's about all the stuff I think about all the time. You know when you meet someone and you have so much in common you dislike them out of defensiveness, they're edging into your niche? I have a feeling I would feel that way if I met Greg Jackson. I'm very very excited to read his next book, I feel like he's gotten the “big important novel” out of his system and he can just write a smaller story about people.
