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A review by fivemack
Annihilation by Catherynne M. Valente
4.0
I know nothing about the Mass Effect games, but I would read anything Cat Valente writes, and so with this.
It doesn't at all feel as if it's squeezed to fit into the shape of a franchise; it's a tale of cooperating to survive aboard a malfunctioning ark-ship, with occasional hilarity (the children's microscope with in-built drill-sergeant personality, which tells you a great deal about what the child's species must be like in half a paragraph) and quite a lot of pathos.
It doesn't at all feel as if it's squeezed to fit into the shape of a franchise; it's a tale of cooperating to survive aboard a malfunctioning ark-ship, with occasional hilarity (the children's microscope with in-built drill-sergeant personality, which tells you a great deal about what the child's species must be like in half a paragraph) and quite a lot of pathos.