A review by outcolder
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

4.0

I might be way off here, but ... if faster than light travel is only possible by manipulating socially constructed concepts of time, and a byproduct of that is a range of weapons that only function within a bubble of altered physics made possible by the same social time-system, then an empire would require tighter and tighter hierarchy to have control over that time-concept. Over that background we get a story about ghostly possession, a me-too plot twist, some AI moralizing and enough world-building to inspire a massive RPG. Or not. But that’s more or less how it took shape in my head. Any book with this much mumbo jumbo is open to miles of interpretation. I’ll be looking for more.