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adventurous
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This cosmopolitan future includes some casual racism, erasure of queerness, and objectification of women, even as it imagines an integrated military. Good craft makes the slow pacing easy to digest. The protagonist craved the approval of authority but wanted to believe he was self-actualizing. I'm not sure I buy the read that this is a world the author actually wanted so much as it may have been a way to talk about his real experiences in the military. The only way to justify that in a science fiction setting requires all the rest of the arguments for the world. But every world justifies its existence, that doesn't mean their all correct.
Content Warnings
Graphic: War
Minor: Sexism, Homophobia, Ableism, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Bullying, and Racism
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