A review by crothe77
Exordia by Seth Dickinson

challenging slow-paced

5.0

This review was made possible via an ARC through NetGalley

Exordia by Seth Dickinson is a science fiction story where a young Kurdish woman, Anna, meets an alien, Ssrin, with eight snake heads. Their chance encounter in a park reveals that nobody but Anna can see Ssrin in her natural form and Ssrin comes to live with Anna. Ssrin is learning everything she can about humanity, becoming more and more familiar with pop culture as time goes on. The alien culture is fascinating and was probably my favorite part.

When Ssrin is discovered by others, the novel switches more to a very grounded military story that switches POV and takes its time. There’s a lot of characters that get introduced and the narrative takes breaks to add more depth to the world and characters and forcing the reader to ask a lot of questions about what is happening on the page.

I would recommend this to fans of military sci-fi and of slower paced science fiction with aliens.

 
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