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Mervi2012
Posted 2017-03-09 4:10 AM (#15433 - in reply to #14868)
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I read two science fiction books which are somewhat similar but also different: Ada Palmer's "Too Like the Lightning" and Yoon Ha Yee's "Ninefox Gambit". They're both set far in the future and have very different societies than ours. They both also drop the reader right in but Palmer starts to offer explanation fairly soon while Yee doesn't explain anything and doesn't much describe anything, either. I struggled with both at first but ended up enjoying both, although Palmer's book more than Yee's. It could well be because Palmer's book for print versin, so I ended up going back and rereading more than a few times. But Yee's book was audio so no way of going back. Both were fascianting books, though, and I'm going to continue with them. Both are also first in a series.

"Ninefox Gambit" is set in a space-fearing culture which has spread to several planets. The main character is an army captain Kel Charis who win a significant fight but in the wrong way and is so taken away from her soldiers. She's given a chance to play host to the digital ghost of a long-dead general. Unfortuantely, the general is also insane and a mass-murderer. But Charis takes the chance.

"Too Like the Lighting" is set on our Earth without nation-states but instead Hives where people can voluntarily join, or not join. The main character is Mycroft Canner, a convict who is paying back as a servitor who can't own anything. There are other narrators, tough. The writing style is archaic and Mycroft addresses the reader from time to time. Mycroft and his friends are protecting a 13-year-old boy who can make anything come alive with a touch.

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