Karen Osborne
Autore di Architects of Memory
Serie
Opere di Karen Osborne
Opere correlate
The Long List Anthology Volume 6: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List (2020) — Collaboratore — 23 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 20th century
- Sesso
- female
- Luogo di residenza
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Istruzione
- Viable Paradise
Clarion Writers Workshop - Attività lavorative
- fiction writer
visual storyteller
violinist - Agente
- Dorian Maffei (Kimberley Cameron & Assoc.)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 217
- Popolarità
- #102,846
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
- 5
- Preferito da
- 1
We get a few other points of view, but Ash is our MC, and she's been poisoned by what she used to mine, the material that makes the spaceships go, and she's hiding the effects--this is in the opening scene. From there, it gets a LOT more complicated with bad and worse choices in a universe of corporations using indentured humans vs. an alien enemy no one understands. The tactile nature of the prose is great. The underlying hatred of corporations appealed to me. I adored what the author did with the aliens, that part is a solid five stars, omg.
Where it lacks for me is in one or two Earth-based similes the MC can't know, and in some of the more extremely over-the-top descriptions later on. I mean, what's happening called for it, but it wasn't as coherent as I prefer, so that was distracting for me, at critical points. I'm not sure I'll read the rest of the series, but it could happen. Where this one ends, is... Oof. But oddly satisfying.… (altro)