A review by nebular_fire
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

3.0

Blarg, I wanted to rate it lower but then I read some reviews (especially by BJ on May 27, 2023) that helped me better articulate why I thought/ felt that way AND wasn’t alone in doing so. Primarily my issues are inconsistent tone and putting ideas over characters. I genuinely thought in the first third of the novel that the story was unique. Then I felt like it was suddenly fanfic of Transformers Beast Wars with 21st century genderqueering and attempting to be a cozy-sci-fi ala Becky Chambers while also trying to parody/process social upheaval from the COVID era? In the end it just didn’t land for me.