A review by kmmcdono
Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear

2.0

Should have been so much more interesting. (Spoilers; just want to vent) Super boring, main character superficially diverse and interesting (I was so excited for a lesbian POC engineer lead!) but in practice every “not like other girls” I’ve ever read about, briefly cheered for the MC when she shut off her futury mind computer and thought for herself, but she can’t get it back online fast enough to go into a mellow boring paladin like state of doing the “right” thing (according to the central government) constantly. Also, I believe Elizabeth Bear must have been in a bet with a buddy about whether or not she could write a book that used the word “atavistic” 57 times.