In Exordia, Seth Dickinson's new novel, Anna Sinjari, a Kurdish refugee who is now working a 9-5 job in New York, is fired from her job, breaks up with her boyfriend, and meets a snake lady space alien who tells her that heaven and hell are real, souls exist, and also God's true name is Godd Howard, because the universe is buggier and easier to break than a Bethesda game. We're talking killing yourself as a speedrun strat to travel the universe here. Anna takes this revelation surprisingly well, all things told.
Oh yeah, and said alien snake lady needs Anna's help because she might be on the run from the space cops who are hot on her trail. Things escalate from there, as Anna eventually meets and is forced to cooperate with a very diverse crew of survivors ranging from American special forces to Chinese mathematicians to an Iranian prisoner of war to figure out an alien artifact which is behaving in horrifying, surreal ways. Eventually, we end up not only in the dimension where physics intersects with morality and ethics in a figurative sense, but in the dimension where high-energy physics intersects with the dimensions of morality and ethics, in a most literal sense.
Exordia is a cosmic horror novel about humanity's desperate struggle to understand a universe which has suddenly gotten a lot more alien and incomprehensible over the period of a few weeks.
Exordia is a science fiction novel which explores the relationship between ethics, sacrifice, and violence from the lens of a varied cast of protagonists who are all flawed in some fashion but are also trying to do the right thing, even when those beliefs and moral frameworks directly conflict with each other.
Exordia is a technothriller celebration of the fact that, let's face it, military hardware is really cool for all that it exists because of our imperfect world, our limited perspectives, and our imperfect moral reasoning.
Exordia is a novel which started as Bionicle fanfiction, and will give you extremely skewed ideas of what Bionicle is like if, like me, you have never actually read an iota of Bionicle lore.
Exordia is a very interesting book with some really big ideas and some extraordinarily hype moments involvingBionicles science fiction warfare. I had some more absurdist titles for this thread and descriptions for the novel, but a lot of them are spoilers of pretty big reveals, either directly or indirectly. I strongly recommend the novel, especially if you enjoyed other stories which live in the intersection of high-energy physics, ethical frameworks, and the callous, impersonal violence of industrial and post-industrial warfare *cough* Mission of Honor Retold *cough*.
Oh yeah, and said alien snake lady needs Anna's help because she might be on the run from the space cops who are hot on her trail. Things escalate from there, as Anna eventually meets and is forced to cooperate with a very diverse crew of survivors ranging from American special forces to Chinese mathematicians to an Iranian prisoner of war to figure out an alien artifact which is behaving in horrifying, surreal ways. Eventually, we end up not only in the dimension where physics intersects with morality and ethics in a figurative sense, but in the dimension where high-energy physics intersects with the dimensions of morality and ethics, in a most literal sense.
Exordia is a cosmic horror novel about humanity's desperate struggle to understand a universe which has suddenly gotten a lot more alien and incomprehensible over the period of a few weeks.
Exordia is a science fiction novel which explores the relationship between ethics, sacrifice, and violence from the lens of a varied cast of protagonists who are all flawed in some fashion but are also trying to do the right thing, even when those beliefs and moral frameworks directly conflict with each other.
Exordia is a technothriller celebration of the fact that, let's face it, military hardware is really cool for all that it exists because of our imperfect world, our limited perspectives, and our imperfect moral reasoning.
Exordia is a novel which started as Bionicle fanfiction, and will give you extremely skewed ideas of what Bionicle is like if, like me, you have never actually read an iota of Bionicle lore.
Exordia is a very interesting book with some really big ideas and some extraordinarily hype moments involving
