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

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

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

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Most readers want some sort of guiding narrative hand that explains world-specific terms and alleviates confusion. I liked Jadao and his role with Cheris, and I love the idea of using a kind of immortal guy as a tactician even though he’s a known traitor. His Machineries of Empire trilogy kept blowing my mind over and over again (my review) and I don’t even really care what his next book is about. Abigail Nussbaum, Worlds in the making, New Scientist, Volume 235, Issue 3138, 2017, Page 43, https://doi. Without these assurances, I wouldn’t have discovered this book which is quite unlike anything I’ve read before.

A final complaint…this seems to be sci-fi because of the whole space, advanced technology, and guns aspects but the story itself is like a fantasy novel. Many readers will struggle to absorb the contours of this universe by osmosis, which is the only option Lee presents. Of course, in his original life, Jedao went mad and wiped out two armies, one of them his own, and he's a famous traitor, but if Cheris didn't believe in taking risks, she wouldn't be in this situation to begin with.That in and of itself isn't particularly unusual, but the way they rule and power their technology is. With Ninefox, Lee has turned this elementary concern into a game of chicken he plays with himself, pushing hard to see how many of the essential, structural underpinnings of the universe can be removed before the fabric of stars unravels. Don’t worry about the math, the lack of exposition, the strange society into which you’re catapulted.

He was a renown general a few centuries ago, until he apparently went mad and massacred his own troops.

She has to learn to trust her skills while not even being sure if she can trust the voice in her head. Humanity can become a post-scarcity space-faring civilisation, if it chooses to set aside petty differences and work together towards achieving that goal. The hexarchate’s technology functions on consensus belief—if people break away from the dominant belief system, centred on an intricate and inflexible calendar, then its technology and its pre-eminence will be finished. I had read the books one by one as they had come out, but I had never sat down and binge-read them before.

How did they inform the development of this faction-based society in general, which seems to have fairly fluid notions of gender and sexuality but also doesn’t (at least in the realm of society that we see in this book) particularly prioritize them? It's all powered by a highly complex system of mathematics, which Lee doesn't go too deeply into except to say that there's lots of math involved. If you are required to reset your password on login, this does not mean your credentials are in the dump or that your account has been breached.The pace will most certainly pick up once certain characters come into play, but in the meantime it might help the reader to slow down and take time to absorb the details and piece the world together by himself or herself. I sometimes wonder if that reader had seen those stories but with a non-Asian name on them, would they have seen the same things? Like an ancient Chinese military history set in a universe driven by laser weapons, endless war, geometric religious orientation, heresy and plots within plots. She’s very smart, with an eye for strategy, and an ability to compute complex mathematical equations under extreme stress.



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