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A review by kbaileybooks
The Stars Undying by Emery Robin
5.0
"When you are held in the mouth of a god, sometimes the best you can do is let yourself be swallowed and call it a homecoming.”
Dense, intricate, challenging, rewarding. This is a sci-fi retelling of Julius Caesar that reads more like epic fantasy than traditional science fiction, and Emery Robin's prose is sharp and shimmering, completely immersive. With clever parallels, gorgeous settings, vicious characters and a supremely unreliable narrator, this novel is a carefully spun political tapestry of theology and power.
“I don’t know whether I believe in the immortality of the human soul,” I said. “I don’t know. That’s true, Captain. But perhaps I do believe—in the immortality of a man’s name. Might that be the same thing?”
“No,” she said. “It isn’t the same thing at all.”
Dense, intricate, challenging, rewarding. This is a sci-fi retelling of Julius Caesar that reads more like epic fantasy than traditional science fiction, and Emery Robin's prose is sharp and shimmering, completely immersive. With clever parallels, gorgeous settings, vicious characters and a supremely unreliable narrator, this novel is a carefully spun political tapestry of theology and power.
“I don’t know whether I believe in the immortality of the human soul,” I said. “I don’t know. That’s true, Captain. But perhaps I do believe—in the immortality of a man’s name. Might that be the same thing?”
“No,” she said. “It isn’t the same thing at all.”