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A review by formtruthregret
Lightspeed Magazine, February 2017 by John Joseph Adams
4.0
I can't say that steampunk is a genre that I've always found very interesting, but I enjoyed the tack taken by this story. Lady Antheia's POV on the Victorian society she's found herself in is both cutting and terrifyingly (and literally) alien, and it makes for a very fun read. It is both somewhat horrifying and yet rather delicious to watch a British Empire, the archetype of colonial expansion, be destroyed by an empire that's them but stronger.
Gleeful schadenfreude aside, this is a great piece of sci-fi, and McGuire does a really good job of sketching out her alien empire in the short space she has to work with, while also telling the story of her protagonist and the invasion. Excellent stuff.
Gleeful schadenfreude aside, this is a great piece of sci-fi, and McGuire does a really good job of sketching out her alien empire in the short space she has to work with, while also telling the story of her protagonist and the invasion. Excellent stuff.