Ninefox Gambit: 1 (The Machineries of Empire, 1)

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It reunites two characters that should have spent more time together in the later books, and really sends the message to the Hexarchate that their troubles are far from over—and they, like the rest of us, should never have underestimated certain groups that kept to the background. But since I cannot avoid the latter books at all, I’m not going to guarantee that everything is going to be 100% spoiler-free.

Abigail Nussbaum, Worlds in the making, New Scientist, Volume 235, Issue 3138, 2017, Page 43, https://doi. The reality of Star Trek, however, is something that is actually achievable, even without the help of aliens.Instead, Jedao plunged the entirety of his force into the gyre and activated the first threshold winnowers, known ever since for their deadliness.

Unfortunately, there are heretical calendars out there, and any space where a heretical calendar holds sway will cause their calendrical technology to stop working. His first chapter has gorgeous prose and lets me develop a good sense of Cheris as a character, all the while dropping unexplained world-specific terms.It made me think of all the right things to make me excited to read book 2, perfectly balancing the desire for a cliffhanger that sets up the sequel while still delivering a clear resolution to this story.