In a star-spanning future, a young soldier is given the seemingly suicidal mission of re-taking a fortress captured by heretics, only to find navigating galactic politics is even harder in Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit.
This is as dense and intricate a bit of world-building that I've seen in a science fiction novel; so much so that it took about thirty or forty pages before I had the slightest notion of what was going on. But once I got into the novel's baroque rhythms I really enjoyed it.
The storytelling is great on the intimate level--as our protagonist struggles with being mind-melded to a genocidal general kept around as a ghost--up to the epic sweep of world-breaking battles and empire-cracking machinations.
A unique setting and plenty of unusual ideas makes Ninefox Gambit recommended for sci-fi fans.
I bought this from Amazon and read it quickly.
This is as dense and intricate a bit of world-building that I've seen in a science fiction novel; so much so that it took about thirty or forty pages before I had the slightest notion of what was going on. But once I got into the novel's baroque rhythms I really enjoyed it.
The storytelling is great on the intimate level--as our protagonist struggles with being mind-melded to a genocidal general kept around as a ghost--up to the epic sweep of world-breaking battles and empire-cracking machinations.
A unique setting and plenty of unusual ideas makes Ninefox Gambit recommended for sci-fi fans.
I bought this from Amazon and read it quickly.
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