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Illuminae
by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
The best straight sci-fi I've read in a long time, Illuminae explodes like a star in your hands. If the main characters weren't teenagers, it would even by a YA novel. But their informality and aversion to authority will make you glad it is.
The entire story is told through "records" - transcripts of online messages and real-life conversations, security footage, and both official and unofficial written documentation. Readers are seeing what's left after the events of the book - what's been gathered to explain what has already occurred. But since we don't know the end, we are along for the light-speed ride.
Kady and Ezra, along with the other characters, are very funny. They're rude, too, and honest and scared. Every interaction is glimpsed at its most casual and intimate; the reader is a fly in the datastream, inside their heads and relationships in a way they'd never allow as narrators. It gives Illuminae another, deeper level of extraordinary storytelling.
Illuminae is a brilliant story, even more brilliantly told.
The entire story is told through "records" - transcripts of online messages and real-life conversations, security footage, and both official and unofficial written documentation. Readers are seeing what's left after the events of the book - what's been gathered to explain what has already occurred. But since we don't know the end, we are along for the light-speed ride.
Kady and Ezra, along with the other characters, are very funny. They're rude, too, and honest and scared. Every interaction is glimpsed at its most casual and intimate; the reader is a fly in the datastream, inside their heads and relationships in a way they'd never allow as narrators. It gives Illuminae another, deeper level of extraordinary storytelling.
Illuminae is a brilliant story, even more brilliantly told.