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A review by talon1010
Loki's Ring by Stina Leicht
Did not finish book. Stopped at 14%.
(ad hoc, I'll clean this up later)
Somewhat paradoxical: leans on standard scifi tropes and initialisms without explanation, as though intended for the veteran sff audience– not, perhaps, the best way to be in the first place– while also bearing some considerable scientific oversights, especially regarding AI, upon which the story hinges.
The characters feel unimaginably flat, with various interpersonal identities pasted onto otherwise exceptionally bland and flat characters. Everyone is a badass space hero who does what they want, amid myriad disabilities and a world which supposed that the only right way to do things is by bureaucracy.
Cartoonish modern details are included, with a 50/50 chance of it being "an ancient saying", or an unacknowledged trope.
Somewhat paradoxical: leans on standard scifi tropes and initialisms without explanation, as though intended for the veteran sff audience– not, perhaps, the best way to be in the first place– while also bearing some considerable scientific oversights, especially regarding AI, upon which the story hinges.
The characters feel unimaginably flat, with various interpersonal identities pasted onto otherwise exceptionally bland and flat characters. Everyone is a badass space hero who does what they want, amid myriad disabilities and a world which supposed that the only right way to do things is by bureaucracy.
Cartoonish modern details are included, with a 50/50 chance of it being "an ancient saying", or an unacknowledged trope.